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There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
Anonymous
Income tax has made more liars out of the American people
than golf.
Will Rogers
There was a time, a hundred years ago—a kinder, gentler
time—when Americans didn’t have to worry about the income
tax. The idea that the government wanted a piece of whatever
you earned wasn’t a wildly popular concept, even though the
tax rate for most people was as low as 1% initially.
Ah, progress. The government wants a lot more than
1% now, and it didn’t take long before the rates were high
enough that people started to feel like cheating. Some of
these people were already breaking other laws ...