The Origin of the Word ..... TAX

Per a request,, this is a re-post.......

I got a call this morning, from Jim Snedden, we discussed world problems, national problems and local problems. He mentioned something about a tax. I said, "Jim who paid the first tax, and how did they know to call it that, and what was it, they had no money then.?

So I did some research. Woog, pictured here on his way to the hunt, was a caveman, lived in the caveman days, and since there were no formal marriages in those days, he lived in his cave with Organnaa, who was considered quite beautiful. Woog spent most of his day hunting and foraging for fruit and berries and Oganish, which was actually a mushroom, and Organnaa would make a shanda, which was what we know as a sauce, today, with the shanda and the juice from the meat she would cook over the ogawa, or fire.

Woog and Organnaa lived happily in their cave, food was plentiful the ogawa kept them warm. They first found their ogawa when during a zawasi, or a rainstorm, as we know it, a great white light came down from the sky and struck a garthwhite, or a tree, and caused the ogawa. They immediately carried some of it in a wet figleaf and took it to their cave, and like themselves, they feed it with branches and sticks every day to keep the ogawa burning. They had no words for it, they just did it.

Not too far away from their cave, lived the Warfaries, as they were called, they were good hunters, but had no ogawa, so they ate their meat raw, which was the norm for most of the tribe. Woog was the only one who had an ogawa inside his cave.

They talked one evening, and Fafa, one of the Warfaries asked Woog if they could sometime bring some of their food over to their cave and hang it over their ogawa. There was no word for cooking at that time. Woog indicated it was alright, but that Fafa would have to share some of his food with Woog and Organnaa.

Saturday night, and there was Fafa at the cave of Woog and Organnaa, with meat, a big portion in his right hand, and a smaller portion in his left. Fafa explained that the bigger portion was his, and the other for Woog and Organnaa. He did not know what to call it. Woog asked him, "What kind of meat is it, Fafa?"

"It is the tenderloin of the Taxaraneous," he told him.

"Ugh, too long," Woog replied, "me just call it ....... a Tax."

Thus, the origin of the word and its usage and a clearer knowledge of what it is and why.