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Americans are now in a daze from intaxication. Do you remember the days of writing out your taxes and bringing out the abacus.

A businessman was near death and made arrangments for his remains to be sent to the Internal Revenue Service with the following note: "Now you have it all." Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Income to the IRS..

Follow up:

Death and taxes are inevitable, but death doesn't repeat itself.

No mans property is safe while Congress is in session. — Mark Twain. Twain had it right, just stop electing people, we will stop having taxes!

Ever wonder why the IRS calls it Form 1040? Because for every $50 that you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.

Enjoy paying your taxes — they're due today!