December 11th, 2024

What goes around comes around in taxes and poetry

By Letter to the Editor on March 12, 2020.

I submitted the following letter to the editor to this paper a few years ago. It seems more relevant now that it did then, so I resubmit.

Income tax border tax,

tax on retail sales,

haircut tax,

school tax,

tax on beer and ale.

City tax, county tax,

tax on all libations,

war tax, wine tax,

tax on corporations.

Brewer tax, sewer tax,

tax on motor cars,

tobacco tax, stock tax,

tax on liquor bars.

Luxury tax, cheque tax

tax on drugs and pills

gas tax, ticket tax,

tax on gifts in wills.

Excise tax, dog tax,

tax on money loaned

provincial tax, road tax,

tax on all things owned.

Stamp tax, land tax,

tax on sportsman’s rings

high tax, low tax,

tax on everything

And now another tax hike on utilities. Time to get a new city council.

Bob Wolstenholme

Medicine Hat

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