"Taxes are essentially just a yearly subscription to the country you live in. Childhood is the free trial” is a saying that has been printed on many images. This quote was posted on Twitter by Syndrome on November 25, 2019.

The first half of the saying had been cited before. “Taxes are like a subscription to your Country that you can’t cancel, no matter how bad the service gets” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on August 19, 2016. “Taxes are essentially a subscription to a country” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on July 14, 2017. “Taxes are subscription fees for the country you live in” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on May 8, 2019. 

“Yearly” is sometimes replaced with “annual.” “Taxes are pretty much just an annual subscription to the country you live in. Being a child is the free trial period” was posted on Twitter by “Galahad of Tombstone squad” on November 27, 2019. “Taxes are essentially just an annual subscription to the country you live in. Childhood is the free trail” was posted on Twitter by Theshan Alwis on January 17, 2020.


Twitter
Stanley Bonk
@StanleyBonk
Taxes are the dues you pay to your country form the protections and advantages it provides for you. It’s your subscription fee, if you will.
2:21 PM · Sep 18, 2015·Twitter Web Client

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Filer93 August 19, 2016
Taxes are like a subscription to your Country that you can’t cancel, no matter how bad the service gets.

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/akashb1 July 14, 2017
Taxes are essentially a subscription to a country.

Twitter
Brawndo
@Brian_Engineers
Replying to @dixonij
By emigrating to Canada :/
Taxes are like a yearly subscription; nothing wrong with changing subscriptions to another country.
2:52 PM · May 25, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

Twitter
internetjohnny.eth
@lnternetJohnny
Taxes are like a government’s yearly subscription that you can’t really cancel
6:13 PM · Jun 22, 2018·TweetDeck

Twitter
Mother Of Sarcasm
@SarcasmMother
Taxes are just a monthly subscription to live in a country.
11:25 AM · Jul 19, 2018·Twitter Web App

Twitter
SHAKTI CHATURVEDI
@25_shakti
Income tax & other taxes are just a monthly and yearly subscription to live in a country.
#incometax #31stjuly #justforfun
1:22 AM · Jul 22, 2018·Twitter for Android

Twitter
Daniel Ramirez
@drmzio
Taxes are just a yearly subscription for being alive in your country
1:43 AM · Nov 12, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/CCR2013 February 12, 2019
Taxes are yearly subscription fees

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Certified-T-Rex May 8, 2019
Taxes are subscription fees for the country you live in

Twitter
Syndrome
@prodbysyndrome
taxes are essentially just a yearly subscription to the country you live in lol
childhood is the free trial
6:37 PM · Nov 25, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Twitter
Cekodok
@id_dien
Taxes are essentially just a yearly subscription to the country you live in
Childhood is the free trial
10:21 AM · Nov 26, 2019·Twitter for Android

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/[deleted] November 27, 2019
Taxes are the yearly subscription you have to pay, and childhood is a free trail.
*trial

Twitter
Galahad of Tombstone squad
@Tom_Quinn54
Taxes are pretty much just an annual subscription to the country you live in
Being a child is the free trial period
8:01 AM · Nov 27, 2019

Reddit—Memes
Posted by u/fuccoon December 3, 2019
And childhood is the free trial
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
taxes are just
annual subscription
to the country you
live in

Twitter
Theshan Alwis
@TheshanAlwis
Taxes are essentially just an annual subscription to the country you live in.
Childhood is the free trail.
5:37 AM · Jan 17, 2020

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/CapitalistNOOBZ February 13, 2020
Taxes are an annual subscription fee to live

Twitter
Aditya Purwanegara
@aditya_pwn
taxes are just essentially a yearly subscription to the country you live in, childhood is the free trial
6:18 AM · Feb 18, 2020·Twitter Web App

Twitter
ÇØŻŸ
@itsevan1602
Taxes are essentially just an annual subscription to the country you live in.
Childhood is the free trial
9:23 AM · Jul 29, 2020

Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
Taxes are essentially an annual subscription to the country you live in.
Childhood is the free trial.
7:11 PM · Jan 2, 2023