The Tax Collector Jolly

The world’s tax collectors have been gunning for Silicon Valley. Now they’re trying to figure out how to divide up the spoils.

WSJ

When you're making money there will come unto your door

the tax collector jolly, who is always asking more.

Whether in Chicago or the wilds of Borneo

the taxman will discover you and ask for all your dough.

They are a breed apart, and have no conscience in their work.

Their soul's an algorithm while they rob you as a perk.

The state can't do without them; they're a necessary evil.

Their bread and butter, life and death, is simply cash retrieval.

It doesn't matter to them where your money may be stashed --

in an offshore bank account or to a flagpole lashed.

They never take a bribe and do not fall for any plaudit;

and if you try to fight them they will counter with an audit.

Since ancient times they've been despised and cursed so fluently

that deep from hell they all are held to be an escapee.

How anyone can take the job and human still remain

is a puzzle to me -- cuz they have the mark of Cain.

Now the pack is on the trail of giants in new tech;

they want to sink their fangs into its very wealthy neck.

Amazon and Facebook may resist with sacred vow,

but hamburger is all that's left of ev'ry fat cash cow.

The Valley of the Silicon will soon feel quite the pinch

as tax collectors round the world do hold them in the clinch.

While governments rejoice in getting money by the gobs

tech workers will most certainly be laid off from their jobs.