Tax Humor
♦ “Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.”
~Alfred E. Neuman
♦ “Intaxication: euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.”
~Greg Oetjen, from a Washington Post word contest
♦ “I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is—I could be just as proud for half the money.”
~Arthur Godfrey
♦ “There’s only one kind of tax that would please everybody-one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.”
~Earl Wilson
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