“The trouble with today’s taxes is that they keep your take-home pay from ever getting there” is a jocular one-line saying about taxes. American syndicated entertainment columnist Earl Wilson (1907-1987) included the saying in his newspaper column on March 20, 1972. Wilson did not credit anyone; he often credited celebrities for lines that were actually written by their press agents. Authorship is uncertain.
20 March 1972, Hartford (CT) Courant Earl Wilson syndicated entertainment column, pg. 25, col. 3:
The trouble with today’s taxes is that they keep your take-home pay from ever getting there.
29 March 1972, Coshocton (OH) Tribune, pg. 1, left masthead:
The trouble with today’s taxes is that they keep your take-home pay from ever getting there.
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Spending Your Way to the Poorhouse
By Tommy L. Gardner
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
2004
Pg. 186:
The trouble with today’s taxes is that they keep your take-home pay from getting there.
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The trouble with today’s taxes is that they keep your take-home pay from ever getting there.
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Between here and there.
The trouble with today’s taxes is that they keep your take-home pay from ever getting there.
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