The Breakfast Club (I Paid My Income Tax today)

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AP’s Today in History for April 15th

Breakfast Tune I Paid My Income Tax today – Irving Berlin

[Verse:]
I said to my Uncle Sam
Old Man Taxes, here I am
And he
Was glad to see me
Mister Small Fry, yes, indeed
Lower brackets, that’s my speed
But he
Was glad to see me

[1st refrain:]
I paid my income tax today
I never felt so proud before
To be right there with the millions more
Who paid their income tax today
I’m squared up with the U.S.A.
See those bombers in the sky?
Rockefeller helped to build ’em, so did I
I paid my income tax today

[2nd refrain:]
I paid my income tax today
A thousand planes to bomb Berlin
They’ll all be paid for and I chipped in
That certainly makes me feel okay
Ten thousand more and that ain’t hay
We must pay for this war somehow
Uncle Sam was worried but he isn’t now
I paid my income tax today

[3rd REFRAIN with coda:]
I paid my income tax today
I never cared what Congress spent
But now I’ll watch over ev’ry cent
Examine ev’ry bill they pay
They’ll have to let me have my say
I wrote the Treasury to go slow
Careful, Mister Henry Junior, that’s my dough
I paid my income tax
Now you’ve got all the facts
I know you’ll pay your taxes too

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

• Bill Curry on Corruption in America
  RUSSELL MOKHIBER

• Bernie Sanders in the Deep South
  Briahna Joy Gray

• How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria
  Johnny Dwyer, Ryan Gallagher

• A New Poor People’s Campaign Is Gearing Up to Launch on Mother’s Day
  Sarah Anderson

• Who’s Who Of American War Criminals And Torture Apologists Endorse Gina Haspel For CIA Director
  Kevin Gosztola

• CYNTHIA NIXON WELCOMES THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT’S HATRED IN SPEECH TO PROGRESSIVES
  Zaid Jilani

• A Key Trump-Russia Intermediary Has Been Missing for Months, as the Case for Collusion Grows Stronger
  James Risen

• ANDREW CUOMO SEES WHAT’S COMING. HE DOESN’T KNOW WHETHER TO RUN, JOIN IT, OR DESTROY IT
  Kate Aronoff

• The True, Accurate, and Only Answer to “How *Exactly* Will We Pay for Medicare for All?”
  Jeff Epstein

• First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: ‘We’re In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis’
  Terry Gross

• Goldman Sachs: Curing Patients’ Illnesses Is Bad for Business
  Logan Espinoza

• Five-storey blue penis causes uproar among Stockholm residents
  Jon Henley,

Something to think about over coffee prozac

Threat of closure spurs surge in sales for Necco Wafers

REVERE, Mass. (AP) — The maker of the colorful Necco Wafers has experienced a surge in sales since announcing it might close unless it finds a buyer, and a Florida woman offered to exchange her 15-year-old car for one company’s wafer inventory.

Necco stands for New England Confectionery Company. It announced in March that 395 workers could be laid off if no buyer is found. That triggered a buying spree by wafer lovers.
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Necco has produced the candies since 1847.