Comments on: The Most Important Game Ever Made #19: Oh, Ha Bloody Ha http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/the-most-important-game-19/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:54:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/the-most-important-game-19/#comment-658193 Tom Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:25:50 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16000#comment-658193 Yeah the worst bit of the "Taxman" lyrics isn't so much George's anger at the 95% band*, which in effect was a maximum wage policy, but "Don't ask me what I want it for / If you don't want to pay some more" - like, dude, this isn't the mafia! Still love the song though *though of course creatives are often poor understanders of the concept of tax bands, obviously a 2 minute song doesn't have room for the idea of "95% at the margin" so "1 for you 19 for me" sounds a lot harsher than it might have been. The Beatles probably ended up losing more money through their shite merchandising deals. Yeah the worst bit of the “Taxman” lyrics isn’t so much George’s anger at the 95% band*, which in effect was a maximum wage policy, but “Don’t ask me what I want it for / If you don’t want to pay some more” – like, dude, this isn’t the mafia! Still love the song though

*though of course creatives are often poor understanders of the concept of tax bands, obviously a 2 minute song doesn’t have room for the idea of “95% at the margin” so “1 for you 19 for me” sounds a lot harsher than it might have been. The Beatles probably ended up losing more money through their shite merchandising deals.

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