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Happy 151st Birthday, Federal Income Tax!

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The income tax has given us much, much more, too -- more than we can list here. So'll we just pick a couple:

Thanks, Federal government, for the funny circular scar on my arm from my childhood vaccination. It means that I, and a lot of other kids, didn't get polio and wind up severely disabled or dead. Don't think I don't appreciate it.

And thanks for the Internet I'm using right now. And for those highways, those trains, all the great innovations ... oh, but I better stop now. I'm getting all choked up.

But that's me: I cry at birthdays. And you know what? If we didn't have this one to celebrate, a lot of other people would be crying too.

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