Treasury Gifts

VAT "Don't worry about him he's just here to deal with late payers."

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

"How is the budget forecast looking?"

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

"We do have faith but I'm afraid our policy is still not to accept Bitcoin."

'Looks like we'll have to break into the piggy bank to find our endowment funding.'

Dept. of the Treasury

"I can't imagine how things could get any worse."

'I love it when you say - 'I'm going to print money'.'

'Tax.'

"The Treasury is fairly sure that the figures in the budget are correct, they might just not be in the right order!"

Gladstone returning to Westminster without a new ticket

'How about a windfall tax on baked beans?'

'... And I appreciate that you've 'saved the world from certain doom on numerous occasions', but you still have to pay your taxes.'

"Will you stop 'tutting' until I've finished my report."

'Honey, the long-run is here!'

'We've completed the spending review and there won't be any.'

"Leak to the press: Brussels bail-outs are French currency manipulation, costing British bureaucrats' jobs!"

"You can go home now, Barmpot - we've balanced."

'Does he do anything besides watch the money?'

'As a cost-cutting measure, from now on we're going to print the stimulus money on recycled paper.'

'Then he smiled and his very last words were 'Now the inland revenue will never find out!''

"It's a graph of economic recovery...which way up do you want it?"

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

'He's testing my Hippocratic Oath. He wors for the IRS.'

'One day, son, all this willy be yours...only by then it will have grown and grown...to hundreds of billions...it's called the cost of PFI.'

'Once the treasurer has passed out his reports, he will field some questions...'

"When I made you VP of Royal Treasury, I expected you to approve my expense reports."

'Since our stadium was built with taxpayer support, I regret to inform you that all incentive and signing bonuses must be returned.'

'...I also do some work for the tax department.'

'Come in! come in!'....we'll see what we can do about your ongoing, way-to-fast growth problem!'

'I hate to tell you this, but there was a hole in my pocket, and I lost the budget surplus.'

Days without bailing anyone out.

"She was my secretary before we got married, now she's the treasurer."