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Spent today walking around my neighborhood parks instead of doing anything productive. It was time well spent. Much better than painting a wall or sorting through old paperwork.

Well, I still haven’t filed.

I have no excuse at all for not doing so yet. My return this year is super-easy. One job, no deductions, no freelance work to declare. Just hate doing it, I guess.

But while procrastinating my filing, I ran across this article in Forbes about what America’s most successful corporations pay in taxes and thought I’d pass it on.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sends a memo to David Eccles MP, Minister of Works, regarding Churchill’s concern about the felling of trees in parks and the countryside. From the British National Archives.

Circa 1954…