Steve Fronk spotted a great bumper sticker shortly before April 15th. It read:
THANK GOD WE DON’T GET ALL THE GOVERNMENT WE PAY FOR!
-Sermons Illustrated July/August 1990
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
-Albert Einstein
Cowboy humorist Will Rogers once overpaid his income taxes by $40,000 but was unable to get the government to issue a refund. He sent many letters that went unanswered and finally decided on a different approach – the next year Rogers claimed the amount as a deduction. When he listed his deductions on his income tax return, Rogers wrote, “Bad debt, U.S. Government – $40,000.”
Today in the Word, Aug. 2003, p.37