What about Scottish singer Will Fyffe's 1920s song about rising taxes causing the price of whisky to soar to-

'TWELVE AND A TANNER A BOTTLE'

(ie 12 shillings and sixpence- UK currency up to 1971)

(about US 90 cents at current rates)

It includes the lines-

'There's taxes on this, there's taxes on that
We're staying thin, politicians get fat'

... which surely rings a bell even in 2015?'