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Show I found a dollar! and the tax to provide more scholarships scholar-ships for kids to go to the university so they can tell m e how rotten the system is. I've paid my taxes for sewers, bombs, wheat for Ru.'jsia, the Senate, hockey rinks and public transportation. Yes, I've paiid my water tax. And when tfoey charge us an air tax to clean up the pollution, I'll pay that, too. I confess I haven't paid my death taxes yet. But I will. I've paid nay taxes for parks, fire protection, laiw enforcement. I've paid my taxes to help the farmer, the hippie and the unmarried mother. HOW COMI3 I've got this dollar in my pocket? Where did it come from? Did sombody put it there to get me in trouble? Is there a tax when you find a dollar like that? I'm not sure. But I know the government is going to be sore whe n they find out I've got it. From Des Moines Register. I THINK I'm in big trouble. I was going through my pockets today and I found something I can't explain. A dollar. Yes, a whole dollar. I've paid my income tax, and my State tax. I've paid amusement tax, sales tax, hospital tax and gasoline tax. I've paid taxes for Medicare and for old age benefits. I've paid the liquor tax, the cigarette tax, the automobile tax, the school tax and the tax to put up a bridge at the other end of the country. When I pay my lawyer 600 bucks, I pay tax on that -and so does he. I pay tax on the money I give to the babysitter baby-sitter and the real estate salesman and the man who makes out my income tax form each year. So how come I've still got a dollar? OBVIOUSLY, I've made a mistake somewhere, and overlooked a tax. But I distinctly remember paying my road tax, the excise tax, the defense tax |