Brickbat: Taxing Situation

henrikj / photo on flickr

Officials in Amsterdam fined hundreds of Holocaust survivors for not paying taxes while they were in hiding or in concentration camps. A student doing research on Amsterdam's Jewish residents discovered documents showing the city attempted to collect those taxes and fines after survivors returned and continued those efforts as late as 1947. Current city officials say they will look into the matter.

Comments

[mr lizard]

Good to see that the only guarantees in life are not mutually exclusive.

[Best Of All Possible Tyrannies]

Arghhh! Thirteen minutes too late!

[Counterfly]

Why will they look into it? Is there even anyone left to apologize to?

Or are they going to "look into it" to see if the tax debt was legitimate and should be passed on to their heirs? Because that would be awesome.

[invisible furry hand]

Margaret Thatcher has just died

[Counterfly]

She was dead to me the second I heard her Desert Island Discs segment.

[invisible furry hand]

link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/pla....._five_live

[Ted S.]

Love the transgressive alt-text!

[Rich]

One imagines that the Estate of Anne Frank is ripe for the picking.

[Ted S.]

Women protest Putin by flashing themselves, telling him to fuck himself.

(The article is in Finnish, but you don't need knowledge of the language to understand the pictures.)

[Best Of All Possible Tyrannies]

Love the "FUCK DICTATOR."

Wish I wouldn't have to be a tyrant so young women would flash me. Sigh.

[Ted S.]

You could be a wife-beating ski-jump champion instead.

[$park?]

You've linked to two articles about women flashing their tits and I've yet to see any tits. What kind of operation are you running here?

[Rich]

No wonder Putin was looking into her eyes.

[Ted S.]

Well, Sarca Smic is posting his "Ooh, I'd masturbate to these women from the Daily Mail" comments over in the Mourning Lynx thread.

[AlmightyJB]

Well if you're just a prick they'll sleep with you, but yeah if you want them to publicly rip their clothes off in front of you than you're gonna need to start oppressing.

[WomSom]

That dude seems to have some really good dieas. Wow.

http://www.Surf-Anon.tk

[VG Zaytsev]

Current city officials say they will look into the matter.

Because the taxes are still due.

[Cheradenine Zakalwe]

What difference at this point does it make?

[a better weapon]

This will never get old.