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Nov 22

God and taxes.

A little boy wanted $100 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened.

Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00. When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, USA, they decided to send it to President Obama.

Obama was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5 bill. He thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.

The little boy was delighted with the $5 bill and sat down to write a thank-you note to God, which read:

Dear God:

Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through Washington, D.C., and those idiots took $95 in taxes.

 

(Got this one in an email forward, and chuckled enough that I thought it worthy of sharing.)

Sep 1

The nerve of them!

At least 25 top United States companies paid more to their chief executives in 2010 than they did to the federal government in taxes, according to a study released on Wednesday.

I never thought I'd see the day where people in the U.S. - the same country that was founded upon the principles of the Boston Tea Party - would get indignant over this.

What's wrong with the owner/founder/CEO of a business making more money from that business than the federal government makes from that business?

I'm actually shocked that 475 of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 are more lucrative for the federal government than they are for the folks who run the company.

About Dan McDonough, Jr.

Dan used to be chief executive of elauwit. Now he's just another dude. Check him out on twitter at www.twitter.com/danmcdonough or on linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/danmcdonoughjr.

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