Remy: Happy (Tax Day Edition)
Remy reworks the Pharrell Williams hit, "Happy," for tax season.
Approximately two minutes.
Written and performed by Remy. Video produced by Sean Malone. All instruments and backing vocals by Ben Karlstrom.
LYRICS:
It might seem crazy what I'm about to say.
I'm loving all these taxes that I gotta pay.
Like income, sales, gas, capital gains,
and having to pay you to figure out the way.
Clap along if you're like me,
and it makes you feel so good.
That your total tax paid for part
of an outhouse in the woods.
Clap along if sweet
camel statues make you groove.
Clap along if you worked four months
to help pay for its hooves.
But don't you want to pay for what PETA says?
How about for Pre-K programs for fetuses?
How about $180 grand to study quail?
How about this—do you NOT want to go to jail?
Clap along if you love
looking for every last receipt.
Clap along if it feels
you're on a bike without a seat.
Clap along if you just want to
high five and say shucks.
When the State Department
can't locate $6 billion bucks.
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Totes patriotic, indeed.
+1/3 of your income
or, more appropriately, -1/3 of your income
Remy, I really appreciate your stuff.
Really captures the zeitgeist.
sweeeeeeeeeeeet
It was painful this year. Also lost 1/3 of my minor refund due to having to do a bunch of extra forms on TT for home business.
FU, whoever invented the Income Tax and FU to the IRS.
Noooooooooooope.
How do people not like that song? Next you'll tell me you didn't like Despicable Me or Despicable Me 2.
OT: Harry Reid says the little dust up between the feds and a rancher in NV is not over:
Harry Reid wants a real fight
Well, it's not over. We can't have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it's not over," Reid said.
Really, Harry? You forgot to say that we can't have the 'wrong' American people violating the law and just walking away from it. But for you, your buddies in the U.S. Senate and your cronies, and the current executive administration, it's business as usual, right?
1982: Reid enters NV legislature, estimate new worth at 1-1.5m.
2012: net worth, 3-10m. That's a really big spread to the point of being worthless. On the bottom number he's doubled his wealth in 30 years which doesn't seem unreasonable. BUT, Reid consistently refuses to release personal financial info.
http://tinyurl.com/lwbbadq
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is this the place where rich people complain about how high their taxes are and how little the moocher class works?
i'm well off enough to know how much an upper-middle class couple pays in taxes and did my taxes yesterday. i paid ~14% of my invome in federal taxes and another 3% to the Socialist Republic of California. onerous?
anybody telling you they paid 40% of their income to the feds is totally full of shit.
But then you realized you weren't paying your fair share and donated an additional 20% to the government, right?
You can't even spell income.
tell me about it. its these frickin free market phones made by companies that are worth half a trillion bucks. can't they do anything right?
Yes, now you are on the right track. We would have much better phones if only the government made phones. Just ask people who lived in the former USSR how well that works out.
You forgot the 7 percent SS tax. And you also forgot the 7 percent that your employer paid.
American socialist:
I can tell that you're really a socialist. Even your own typos can be blamed on capitalism.
What can't be blamed on capitalism, really? It's all very convenient, especially when you wish to avoid responsibility for yourself.
Actually, when I type "invome" in my phone, it auto-corrects to "income."
You know what that means? It's probably a capitalist plot.
So what is my fair share? How much of my income is a just and righteous payment to society (represented by government)? Half? Should I be grateful to the great and benevolent peoples' government for anything they let me keep?
anyone in the current tax system that is paying half their income in taxes should either hire/fire an accountant.
Could you explain in more detail how this was pulled off? I'd like to know more.
I mean, by being well off to know how much an upper-middle class couple pays in taxes, does that mean you actually are in an upper-middle class couple? Or, you just know one?
hey... that's pretty good remy. i think your problem is with tax preparers though. why don't you get off your fat ass and do your own taxes?
Reposting because I accidentally put this in a 3 year old thread:
1. Take all the money spent this year, group it by line-item.
2. Assign taxpayers randomly to each line item, so that their total taxes + per capita government borrowing cover the cost of the line item.
2a. Bonus: Assign taxpayers not randomly, but rather in a way that maximizes anger and cognitive dissonance (hippies pay for the wars, socons for abortions, college kids for the drug war, etc...). The NSA can help you figure it out.
3. Inform said taxpayers of what all the money they paid that year went towards.
4. Sit back and watch the fireworks
Taxes should be paid the day before election day. it would also be nice if everyone paid their estimated taxes in a check or transfer so that they actually see the money leaving their account to go to Uncle Sam.
Meant to say "paid estimated taxes instead of withholding."
Haha, this is hilarious! Thank you for making my day. It's also my birthday so this was much needed, b/c it is Crappy having to pay the government taxes especially on your birthday. http://www.asecurelife.com/2014-april-newsletter/
Just think what a wonderful life it would be if there was no tax. No filling out forms keeping receipts. Buying things would so much cheaper. Starting a business would be fun. Hiring people in you business would take no effort. Maybe you could do a song on that? http://bit.ly/1M79rBX
Haha, this is hilarious! Thank you for making my day. It's also my birthday so this was much needed, b/c it is Crappy having to pay the government taxes especially on your birthday. http://www.homesafesavers.com/
good article.thanks.
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