Americans would have a different attitude toward taxes if they were not deducted from our paycheck. Then, we would have to write checks every month payable to the various departments of the US Government for our income, payroll, social security, and all other taxes. There is something about owning something and then being forced to give it up.
Paycheck deductions for taxes are too smooth, too easy and too automatic. They create the numbing unconsciousness that can delude one into thinking that the entirety of a hard-earned paycheck was never truly ours to begin with. The fact that some, upon receiving their tax refund, exclaim that "they got something back", is alarming when one really thinks about the mindset. Rather, the exclamation should be: "why did they overreach into my earnings and where is the interest payment?"
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