Go To Hell, Gabelle! (Limerick)
Dictionary.com celebrated Tax Day today with this new-to-me word: Gabelle.
1 a tax; excise.
2 French History. a tax on salt, abolished in 1790.
Payers never respond with a smile
To taxes, which anger and rile.
Salty words greet gabelles;
Taxing salt rarely sells,
And in France it has gone out of style.
Tags: Gabelle Humor, Language Humor, Language Limerick, Money & Finance Humor, Money Limerick, Tax Humor, Tax Limerick
