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She PAYE‘d and NI’d all her working life. She also paid NI + pension contributions on her childminder’s wage, council tax, extra tax for her green bin, VAT on repairs and in eateries, extra taxes on fuel, clothes, Jaffa cakes,sugar, wine, travel. #130story
The taxpayers collar
Gives you access to fresh air
It constricts around your neck
If you haven’t got a shilling to spare.
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Siobhan hit a pothole and her inner tube burst. Like all taxpayers, she wondered how the pothole was there in the first place. #130story
Been taxpayers revolts
Throughout history
First recorded
Pharaoh Tut Tut the Third
Applied a tax
On Egypt's cats
After this
Tut Tut never again to be heard
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The taxpayers revolt
It isn't their fault
It's the fault of those who spend taxes
And the ministers who swing axes
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A look at this archive
Is a revelation to me
The 5 tweeps who tweeted
Are tweeps I no longer see
The crowd has moved on
And new folk come to play
You could be part of the team
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Except Sundays