I rest my case.

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7..
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do..

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20″. Drinks for the ten men would now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men? The paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.
And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% saving).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% saving).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% saving).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% saving).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% saving).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% saving).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings.

“I only got a dollar out of the $20 saving,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,”but he got $10!”
“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!”
“That’s true!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back, when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”
“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!”
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works. The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

-Unknown Author

I present to you – Ten cool beer facts:

• Way back in the 1900’s, nearly all saloons were under the ownership of the brewery that made the beer served there and the weekly earnings of the bartenders were $10-$15.
• When on a Safari in Africa, President Theodore Roosevelt carried with him no less than 500 gallons of beer.
• The expression “Rule of Thumb” actually came from brewers, who used to insert their thumb into the mix during the beer making process to find out when the temperature was just right for the yeast to be added.
• The expression “Wet Your Whistle” in fact can be traced to a fascinating tale from England. It appears that whistles were in fact baked into the edge of beer mugs in order to enable beer drinkers get the waiter’s attention to refill their mugs.
• The term “cerevisaphile” refers to any body that enjoys beer.
• The expression “Mind Your P’s & Q’s” comes from the time when ale was ordered in English bars, the order was taken in pints or quarts. When someone became slightly drunk the bartender would holler at that person to mind his pints & quarts.
• In Japan, you will see beer being sold at train stations, in vending machines, and also by street vendors.
• The recipe for making beer is the oldest one ever to be written.
• The actors Bruce Willis, Bill Cosby, Sandra Bullock, Tom Arnold, and Chevy Chase are some of the stars that began their careers serving beer as bartenders.
• Next to tea, beer is the second most well liked beverage in the world, enjoyed by millions.

h/t – Beer Satori

Crack open a cold one, guys… it’s a day of celebration!!  Yes indeed, 75 years ago today a New Jersey brewing company churned out the world’s first beer can in 1935.  Read all about it here…

A Toast to the Beer Can: Happy 75th Birthday

Beer-drinking men may be reducing their chances of developing prostate cancer with every pint, tests by scientists have revealed.

Experiments have shown that xanthohumol, a compund derived from the hops in beer, blocks a chemical reaction that can lead to the development of cancer.

The disease is usually treated with drugs that act in a similar way.

“We hope that one day we can demonstrate that xanthohumol prevents prostate cancerdevelopment, first in animal models and then in humans, but we are just at the beginning,” said study leader, Dr. Clarissa Gerhausa, from the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg.

Xanthohumol is a powerful antioxidant, known to have anti-cancer properties. It is also found in fruits and spices.

It was previously suggested that the compound could reduce the chances of females getting breast cancer.

Click here to read more on this story from Sky News.