CHINA-INVESTMENT - Workers put up a giant billboard for US automaker Ford at a street corner in Beijing 04 January 1998. China announced a long-awaited list of sectors where state has lifted capital-goods import TAXES on foreign investors, reversing policy in an effort to boost investment. (Photo by GOH CHAI HIN/AFP via Getty Images)
BUSINESS DEP'T.
Bracket Busted
THE ICE IS melted, the daffodils are up, and a new month is almost upon us. That means it is time once again to share with our subscribers, paid and unpaid alike, the bounty of our monthly Getty Images Photo Roundup.
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Amid the more cheery and floral seasonal changes afoot, this is also the season when the Getty subscription goes onto our federal Schedule C, as a business expense, as we calculate the difference between Indignity's income (thank some of you very much/hint, hint) and its operating costs. Will anyone be left at the Internal Revenue Service to read it? Regardless, to celebrate our annual reckoning with our balance sheet, and our most consistent engagement with our government, we present our end-of-March photographic theme: TAXES.
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 13: Clowns from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus hold a giant tax form while sitting on elephants outside of the New York Post Office 13 April to remind New Yorkers to get their TAXES in before the 17 Apr deadline. (ROBERT MILLER/AFP via Getty Images)CANADA - SEPTEMBER 22: They're off! In these times; when job creation is the government's top priority; we should consider repealing the laws that forbid pari-mutuel betting on greyhound dogs in Canada; reader says. Besides the TAXES that would be generated from legalization; a number of jobs would open up at each track and at farms that would breed; raise and train dogs; reader adds. (Photo by Boris Spremo/Toronto Star via Getty Images)Pre-Columbian Art. Aztec period. Mexico. Collecting TAXES. Codex. National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. (Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Under the marquee of the Duke Theatre (at 1605 Chestnut Street) which advertises the film 'The China Syndrome,' demonstrators protest nuclear power in the wake of the previous day's accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1979. Among their signs are ones that read 'Nuclear Power is a Waste of Energy and Money' and 'No TAXES for Nuclear Power.' The movie had opened twelve days before the accident and, coincidentally, bore a number of similarities to the partial meltdown and radiation leak that had occurred at the nuclear plant which was located approximately 100 miles from Philadelphia, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Ed Eckstein/Getty Images)Rune Stone of Torsatra. Skule and Folke raised the stone in memory of his brother Husbjarn, who became ill when collecting TAXES in Gotl. Historical Museum. Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Everyone seems to be talking simultaneously in this picture made early at Studio 54. Flanking attorney Roy Cohn are his two clients, co-owners of Studio 54, Steve Rubell (L) and Ian Schrager (R). Cohn is defending his clients who are charged with not paying federal TAXES on $2.5 million that was allegedly skimmed from bar and admissions proceeds. A federal grand jury has accused Rubell and Schrager of corporate and personal income tax evasion, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)Old Jim Crow Has Got To Go! Pamphlet consisting of black and white text on yellowed paper and black margins. Illustrated on the cover a fist has punched through a barrier with labels including 'peonage,' 'lynching,' 'segregation,' 'discrimination' and 'poll TAXES.' Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and elsewhere within the United States. Artist Unknown. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)Tom Metzger, (R), leader of the California Ku Klux Klan, orders members to withdraw after a brief clash with police here on March 15, 1980. Just behind him is a KKK "guard dog" that was shot and killed. "I think Metzger's got good ideas," a native of Metzger's hometown said recently. "This country is all screwed up; Metzger's the only guy asking the right questions: inflation, TAXES, unemployment—nobody can get a job and we're giving money to all those refugees who are taking jobs from Americans."
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★★ Evenly gray clouds admitted evenly gray light. Yesterday's spike of warmth was gone, and there was no need to bother with sunscreen. Pink cherry blossoms in the middle of the block were the only assertive spot of color; the tentative new leaves looked as drab as everything else around. The chill was the kind that got worse with time, rather than allowing acclimation.
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WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from The All-American Cook Book: Being a Collection Chiefly of Recipes of the Favorite Dishes of Famous Americans, by Mrs. Gertrude Frelove Brebner, published in 1922, and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
WM. H. ROBERTSON American Consul-General to Buenos Aires, Argentina Hot Sandwiches
Cut 12 slices of bread 1/2 inch thick; butter and spread ham between; dip in milk and fry in hot olive oil until crisp and brown. Serve immediately.
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