Income Tax Day: May As Well Get Drunk
Fortunately, our superb local purveyor of wine, Market Street Wineshop, alerted us to the perfect vin rouge with which to ease the pain and to drown our despair—1040FU. See label below:
The 1040FU website explains—with sentiments that any libertarian will appreciate—why this particular product of the grape was created:
Face it, drinking 1040FU wine is political revolt in a glass! It's your way of telling your friends that the government is squandering the hard earned money of taxpayers.
1040FU is conscientious objection to waste & the current political process. Drinking 1040FU questions the wisdom of a Stimulus Bill that at best created pick & shovel jobs. Toasting with a glass of 1040FU asks the question of how you can revamp health care for 30 million additional people but not add more doctors, nurses or address tort reforms. Opening a 2nd bottle of 1040FU signifies your acknowledgement that the government is socialist and the new 3.8% Medicare Tax on dividends and draws combined with an additional tax rate increase from 36.9 to 39.6% in 2010 are just the beginning. And buying a case of 1040FU shows that you're a dammed good CPA and that you have some of your own FU.
For more about 1040FU, go here.
Disclosure: My wife and I just purchased half a case and plan to enjoy a bottle after we mail in our income taxes tomorrow.
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Huh. I don’t drink wine, but I may get a bottle.
Oh yeah that sounds pretty good to me dude. Lets all get drunk
Lou
http://www.whos-watching.es.tc
I drink, therefore I am.
Heidiger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table . . .
Good marketing, but is it good wine? Let us know.
So…is it a Merlot? A Cab?
Wrong bottle for Bordeaux varietals (Cab & Merlot).
Rhone varietals:
2008 1040FU Paso Robles Red Blend @ $14.99
2008 1040FU Santa Barbara Syrah @ $19.99
kinnath: I am quite fond of Rhone blends (not so fond of Bordeaux)and really enjoy a good syrah. Looking forward to trying the wine tomorrow.
I really go for Italian (Brunello or Barolo), but Bordeaux will work also. Syrah just turns me off for some reason (although I do have a few outstanding Shirazes tucked away for safe keeping).
Kinnath: It’s the Merlot that turns me off in Bordeaux. My preferred Italian is Amarone.
Taxes are voluntary, chill out.
True… if you don’t like paying the dues, then leave the club.
SOCIAL CONTRACT!
*barf*
It seems many folks are starting to eye this. (Photoshop as appropriate.)
Congress looks into smokeless tobacco in baseball
Unsurprisingly, Pallone is a tool in more ways than this. He also voted to not count Ohio’s electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election.
Why *is* smokeless tobacco banned in the minors? It sorta of destroys the entirety of the ‘Bull Durham’ image.
Taxes are completely voluntary. No one has ever been thrown in jail for tax evasion. That is just another right-wing myth.
Citation needed.
(Umm…Capone?)
I just discovered I get a rebate of the city income tax for all the days I worked out of town! Woohoo!
Now, just remember to remit all those “visitor” taxes to the appropriate jurisdictions and you’ll be fine . . .
Let ’em try to find me.
They’re just trying to encourage you to leave.
So I’ve been told — often.
The Syrah is the best but $5 more. It goes from 85 points to 90 points if you let it breath for 20-30 minutes and if you deduct it as a office decoration!
Likes this:
“appreciation for you & your tax preparer”
Tax accountants need love too. Hug/buy a drink for your accountant. We will all be drunk & easy tomorrow night.
That is wine that I think we all need to get drunk off of for income taxday. Ha, what a smart way of saying it. Bravo.