Taxes are unavoidable, but is the thicket? The typographic tangle has proliferated since the 16th Amendment authorized the federal income tax in 1913.
Felix Frankfurter was not merely phrasemaking in 1946 when he warned the Supreme Court to shun the "political thicket" of state legislative apportionment.
We approach a wheelchair or thicket of IV tubes with our heart in our mouth, or even worse, our foot there.
Budget Reset Talks Lead to Fresh Drama The Memphis City Hall budget drama turned from a budget reset into a political thicket Tuesday, June 4, as Memphis City Council members debated gettin...
June 5, 2013 - The Memphis Daily News
Richard Lambert in Independent Richard Lambert, its director general, said major initiatives were being lost in a "thicket of much less ambitious announcements", adding: "The Government appears to have been fighting a series of forest fires rather than building a platform...
Mitch McConnell in New York Times The timing couldn't be worse for a bill that will make it even harder to create private-sector jobs, and harder for small businesses to comply with ...... a thicket of new rules,said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Mitt Romney in CNN Joe Biden is an impenetrable thicket of words,Romney said. "I can't imagine anybody who is ready to debate Joe Biden."