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Feb 26Yeah Yeah I'm The Tax Man
by in Error'd on 2026-03-20
In only a handful of years, four Liverpudlian scruffs clawed their
way from obscurity to unprecedented worldwide celebrity.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Already making a mint from "Money" and
other hits, by 1965 they were MBEs, and suddenly discovered
class solidarity -- with the rest of the singlet-clad bathers
in their grottos of ducats. To be fair, a 97%
marginal rate does make it hard for a lad to break into
the ranks of true generational wealth.
So in 1966, George Harrison and his newly-minted toffs released the anti-government protest shriek of the upper class, and even now, we Americans share their pain in this our momen of reckoning with ... the Tax Man.
The Beast in Black first complained "I tried to get my W2 (for our non-Murican friends, that's the statement from your employer showing how much they paid you and how much tax they deducted) from ADP, and apparently their programmers did a number (two) on the form. TRWTF is that the damn form actually works if I add the slash separators to the date components."