Don’t tax you.
Don’t tax me.
Tax that man behind that tree.............
Death and taxes. Not much difference really, as taxation kills innovation, motivation, freedom and basically the very ability to get up and go. The dose makes the poison.
Your post reminded me of the Hadith about killing Jews hiding behind trees:
"The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews."
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/03/jews-are-planting-gharqad-trees-to.html
Turns out, the topic of the "tree of the Jews" deserves its own thread. Thanks for the inspiration! :)