Have you tried paying tax with a smile?

P-Noy says we must pay our taxes with a smile. Here we go again. I mean here’s that advice again. Has P-Noy tried paying his tax with a smile, not with cash?

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 News that there’s gonna be a wage increase kind of perked up a warehouse man I know. “Now,” he says. “I can pay last year’s income tax.”

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 From a text message: “Always check the quality of your friends.” I don’t quite get what the texter means. But I want to feel assured that I got good quality friends. They talk good things behind my back. At least, I think so. Hehe.

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 Noy Temyong attended a symposium on friendship recently. He said he learned many things about true and untrue friendship. Like: A friend is never known till he is needed ... If you lend a friend 100 pesos and never see him again it was worth it ... Don’t tell a friend his social faults, he will cure the fault and never forgive you ... And many more.

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 I would like to interrupt this column to acknowledge and pass on to you this sad news: Vice Gov. Greg Sanchez has passed away. A victim of lung cancer. God bless his soul. My condolences to his bereaved family. (You must have already read the details by the time this column is out.)

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 This news report here says NFA rice is rotting in a Western Visayas warehouse. An investigation has been ordered. So what else is new? News like this comes out now and then. Investigation follows. And then what? And then the news withers and dies.

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 Here’s a beautiful message texted to me by Tite Salie. I want to share this with you: “I asked God, how do I get the best out of life?” God answered: “Face the past without regret, handle your present with confidence, prepare for the future without fear.” Then He added, “Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don’t believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs! Life is wonderful if you know how to live. Just trust Him. God knows ... God sees ... God bless you.”

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TRIVIA — Children need love, especially when they do not deserve. — Harold S. Hulbert.