Would you like to be the glut
who gets the taxes? It is a hundred to one shot you don’t know
who gets the taxes.
You believe that your City gets the taxes. You believe that your State gets the taxes. You believe that the United States of America gets the taxes. But they don’t.
“Well,” you say, “if our City doesn’t get the taxes, and if our State doesn’t get the taxes, and if the United States of America doesn’t get the taxes, who the devil does get the taxes?”
That’s just it. The devil gets the taxes.
“But,” you say, “there ain’t no devil.”
Yes, there is a devil; a real, live devil; and
The Original Benefactor
the devil that IS is
worse than the devil that AIN’T.
The devil that AIN’T doesn’t steal the milk out of your babies’ bottles, but the devil that IS does.
The devil that AIN’T doesn’t go around among the feeble old people and steal their homes and their beds, but the devil that IS does.
The devil that AIN’T doesn’t wait like a hungry vulture for you husbands to die so that he can pounce upon your widows and orphans and take every penny and dollar’s worth of property you leave them, but the devil that IS does.
The devil that IS has another name or two. His first name is Alien and his middle name is Financier.
The alien financier has not only stolen the babies’ milk and permitted millions of suf-
You believe that your City gets the taxes. You believe that your State gets the taxes. You believe that the United States of America gets the taxes. But they don’t.
“Well,” you say, “if our City doesn’t get the taxes, and if our State doesn’t get the taxes, and if the United States of America doesn’t get the taxes, who the devil does get the taxes?”
That’s just it. The devil gets the taxes.
“But,” you say, “there ain’t no devil.”
Yes, there is a devil; a real, live devil; and
The Original Benefactor
the devil that IS is
worse than the devil that AIN’T.The devil that AIN’T doesn’t steal the milk out of your babies’ bottles, but the devil that IS does.
The devil that AIN’T doesn’t go around among the feeble old people and steal their homes and their beds, but the devil that IS does.
The devil that AIN’T doesn’t wait like a hungry vulture for you husbands to die so that he can pounce upon your widows and orphans and take every penny and dollar’s worth of property you leave them, but the devil that IS does.
The devil that IS has another name or two. His first name is Alien and his middle name is Financier.
The alien financier has not only stolen the babies’ milk and permitted millions of suf-