10 Occupational Wrestling Gimmicks You Won't Believe

2. IRS

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Vince McMahon is absolutely minted, has been for well over half of his adult life, and thus probably hates taxes.

Taxation and the very idea behind it is a victim mostly of bad marketing than a bad process. There's not a lot to it, really. At its best, it's a community pot that people with means only needs to contribute a small amount to in order to make everything better for everybody. This fundamentally good thing is why fundamentally bad people like the very rich hate it.

Billionaires don't make their money through the sale of their products or the "hard work" they bleat on constantly about. They make it through the grossest of means, including but not limited to not paying their fair share of tax and instead trying to squirrel away more for themselves at the expense of others. McMahon had his lightbulb moment about how to reflect his dislike of all of this in the form of the IRS gimmick slapped on Mike Rotunda in 1991.

For four years, Rotunda called a town tax cheats, slapped on a headlock and got the f*ck out of there with your money and your time, generating even more of both for McMahon's bloated coffers. But taxation's the real problem.

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