There’s a new method of bribery which has come into being in our nation; the legal, official bribe!
We’ve just seen this in the Maharashtra elections where women were promised one thousand five hundred rupees per month by a party.
The party won, the people are jubilant, thinking they have a bonus in their pocket, but it’s your very own money dear friend, your own taxes!
Your Airline surcharge tax, Accounts receivable Tax, Airline Fuel Tax, Airport Maintenance Tax, Building Permit Tax, Cigarette Tax , Corporate Income Tax, Death Tax, Dog License Tax, Driving Permit Tax, Excise Taxes, Income Tax, Professional Tax, Industry Tax, Food License Tax, Petrol Tax, Octroi Tax, Health Tax, Hunting License Tax , Wealth Tax.
Inheritance Tax, Interest Tax, Liquor Tax, Luxury Taxes, Marriage License Tax, Medicare Tax, Mortgage Tax, Personal Income Tax, Property Tax, Poverty Tax, Drug Tax, Provincial Income Tax, Real Estate Tax, Recreational Vehicle Tax, Retail Sales Tax, Service Charge Tax, Educational Tax, Telephone Tax, Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes, Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax, Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Water Tax, Road Tax, Well Permit Tax, Workers Compensation Tax.
Rice and TV’s with your tax money, ha, ha, ha!
And how do they do it? Ah well! Since you insist, here’s how:
They tax your land, tax your bed, tax the table at which you’re fed.
Tax your tractor, tax your mule and tell you taxes are the rule.
Tax your work, tax your pay, you work for peanuts anyway!
Tax your cow, tax your goat, tax your pants and tax your coat.
Tax your ties, tax your work, even tax your unwanted dirt.
Tax your tobacco, tax your drink, tax you, dare you try to think.
Tax your cigars, tax your beers, If you cry, they even tax your tears.
Tax your car, tax your gas, tax the mountain and the pass.
Tax, tax, tax, then let you know, you won’t be done till you have no dough.
When you scream they tax you more, tax you till you’re good and sore.
Then tax your coffin, tax your grave, tax the ground in which you’re laid.
Then put these words upon your tomb: ‘Taxes drove him to his doom!’
When you’re gone, don’t relax, your wife’s to shell out inheritance tax!
So, if you ever wonder why our roads are terrible and we take years to build a bridge, remember that money that should have been used for your welfare was spent on freebies to buy votes to keep politicians in power!
So when rice and wheat are rupees two, and TVs given free
Remember they’re the taxes, that’s paid by you and me
Your taxes buy that TV, or subsidize that rice
Your taxes are now bribery in camouflaged disguise..!
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Even opposite party promised same bribery. In short everyone of us likes to bribe somenody and gets bribed from somebody. Jay bribery!
Good morning dear Robert
The message about bribery I s become very common every where.Bob you r an intelligent and brave man.Yes the politician promise the underprivileged people and due to their poverty they accept it,as they don’t have sincerity in them.
Thank you Jasmine
A bold and witty story in verse!
So true, but what to do?
Plenty Jean. We need to make people aware about how taxes from their hard earned money is being wasted.
Thank you Jean
Thank you for the poetic, realistic and eye opening article, Bobby. It’s thought provoking,bold and true. The Inflation to cover the debts of India’s 2nd richest tycoon is on our head. The GST,unemployment and tax on everything is monstrous