This illustration shows a large fountain with four basins, at top, supported by a crown and scepters, is a basin labeled "Millionaire", next resting on a cornucopia is "Well-To-Do", then the "Middle Class" basin supported by an octopus, and at the bottom is the largest basin labeled the "Laboring Class". The fountain is standing on a platform labeled "Tax System"; the water, cascading from top down is labeled "Burden of Taxation".
(Illus. in: Puck, v. 65, no. 1686)
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Created / Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building
Illustration shows a customs officer placing a tax stamp on an American heiress, also vignettes showing some suggested ways of generating revenue, such as taxing "poodles and other precious pups", people who tell tall stories, "divorce", "sidewhiskers", "amateur elocutionists", and "rubber plants", "instead of putting it all over the poor old consumer".
Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, 1909 April 21.