Behold : a 'tax season play list' stuffed and packed with songs about money ...
Regarding the mix title, "Death and taxes" is a common reference to the famous quotation:
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789
However, Franklin's letter is not the origin of the phrase, which appeared earlier in Daniel Defoe's The Political History of the Devil :
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believ'd.— Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726
And in The Cobbler of Preston by Christopher Bullock (1716) :
"'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes,"
So there you have it!
As always,
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