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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by Anarch157a on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:18AM (#21281687)
Here in Brazil the mascot of the Income Tax is a Lion, it's of an old ad campaign the government ran, comparing taxes with lions and saying "the lion is tame".
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by marcosdumay on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:11PM (#21285395)
It's because of an old popular joke in that the government is a lion that will always take a lion-sized bite from your income.

It's really an old joke. On any reference I have ever found, no matter how old, the joke is already old and the readership is expected to know it.

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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by exikyut on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:11PM (#21286819)
Oh of _course_, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion's_share

Which is obviously intentionally ironic considering that

> The lion's share is an idiomatic expression which refers to the major share of something.

I wonder what other countries tuck these kinds of harmlessly blatant humor in similarly unexpected places. It's nice.

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