Q. How does the Income-Tax affect persons of precarious income?
A. It deprives them of the money which they ought to save as a provision against a season of loss of employment, or against old age.
Q. Where do those people go who are incapacitated by the Income-Tax from making a provision for loss of employment, or for old age?
A. To the workhouse.
Punch, December 13, 1856.
A Rabble Catechism for M.P.’S.
Respectfully Dedicated to Major Beresford, M.P., for North Essex; Ex-Tory Whipper-in, Secretary-at-War in 1852; with every possible etcetera.
Q. What is a rabble?
A. Rabble is a congregation of creatures that hiss and hoot.