Posted by: musingsofjustjon | April 15, 2008

Tax Day

Did you all remember to get your taxes in before tonight’s 12 midnight deadline?

Good evening all -

It has been a couple of days since I have posted. I thought I would just check in with another thesaurus exercise. I have only chosen the noun entries for tax:

Main Entry: tax
Part of Speech: noun 1
Definition: charge
Synonyms: assessment, bite*, boodle, boondoggle, brokerage, capitation, contribution, cost, custom, dues, duty, excise, expense, fine, giveaway*, imposition, impost, levy, nick, obligation, pork barrel*, price, rate, salvage, tariff, tithe, toll, towage, tribute

Main Entry: tax
Part of Speech: noun 2
Definition: burden
Synonyms: albatross*, charge, deadweight*, demand, difficulty, drain, duty, imposition, load, millstone*, onus, pressure, strain, task, weight

Source: Roget’s New Millenniumâ„¢ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

I think that about says it all – just thank the government for its belief that it can tax and spend this country into bankruptcy.

See ya soon

JustJon


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