GST

By The Scared Weird Little Guys



Once Upon A Time In The ACT

Two 'poli's Met For A Cup Of Tea

Their Names Were Howard, J., And Costello, P.,



They Talked About The State Of The Land

How Not Enough Money Went Into Their Hands

And They Came Up With An Ingenious Plan

To Partly Bamboozle The Common Man

And It'd Sound Good Enoughbut It'd Still Be A Scam

And Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am:



The GST



Let's Explain This Ten-percent

Because Confusion Is Evident

At Times Like These Where Every Cent

Is Spent On Rent And Isn't Meant

To Supplement The Government

And Now We Feel Embarrassment

When He Tells Us We Shouldn't Worry

And He Can't Even Say He's Sorry



You Pay Ten-percent On An Orange-juicer

Which The Vender Pays To His Producer

Who Hands Some On To His Supplier

Who Gets Some More From Another Buyer



That's How It Works, It's Plain To See

It's Simple Just Like A,b,c

Unless You See Your Juice To Me

In Which Case The GST

Is Not Paid By You, But Me



So When You Go To The Milkbar Later

And You Buy Some Bread And A Baked Potato

The Guy's Out Back With His Calculator

And He's Trying To See If It's Lessor Or Greater



He's Punching Away At The Keys In Front

Performing A Mathematical Stunt

And His Language Could Be Described As Blunt

As He Calls John Howard A Little...late For Dinner



Noodles, Videos, Plumbers And Ice-cream

Dog-bones, Petrol, Feminine Hygiene

Crampons, Custard, Concrete

All Gets Taxed



Say It's Ten-percent On Forty-eight Fifty

Or Four-eighty-five, But Now It Gets Shifty

'Cause Now The Price Becomes Fifty-three Thirty-five

Now Round That Up To A Straight Fifty-five

Or An Extra One-dollar Sixty-five

That's Thirty-four-percent

On Your Ten-percent

On Top Of The Tax

You've Already Spent About Three-percent

That Wasn't Even Meant

Of The Hundred