* The tax preparer asked the Irish woman, “When was your son born?” she said in December last year.   “That is great because you can claim him as deduction for the whole year that way.”    “Really?”    “Sure, that is why there are so many babies are born in December.”    “Oh”, she replied, “I thought it was because of St. Patrick’s day.”

* Tax Reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before.

@ As we walked around the amusement park we stopped to watch the caricature artist work. A fiftyish woman commented when the young man charged $15 for a portrait, “Fifteen dollars just to have someone draw my wrinkles.”  The young man turned and studied her face for a moment, then replied, “I don’t see any wrinkles.”  She immediately sat down and had her $15 portrait drawn.