Tax Withholding Helps Avoid Revolts
For those interested in conspiracy theories, consider the withholding of US federal and state income taxes.
By law, we are forced to send in our “fair share” of the tax burden at regular intervals. Employers are required not to give it to us in the first place, and send it directly to the governments.
Why not allow us to keep it until the annual tax bill is calculated?
Perhaps it’s to avoid the ensuing revolts when wealth-creating people are made fully aware of the huge dollar amount that they are forced to pay each year. Instead of being angry and horrified, people are usually happy to get a “refund.”
Perhaps it’s to avoid the huge tax “loss” from people who have already spent the governments’ share of their created wealth, and must declare bankruptcy (this doesn’t work with tax bills, so there’s no escape).
For further reading on the history of tax withholding, see this report: Evolution of Federal Income Tax Withholding. In 1943, the government used the opportunity of centralized power and patriotism to pass this law.
All of us owe it to humanity and the freedom of our progeny to be aware of our roles in supporting the ballooning government machine that invades our lives and choices, and forces us to work and slave for anything and everyone as long as it’s not for ourselves.
There is a proper role for government: the limited protection of our individual rights from other humans both foreign and domestic. It should not “redistribute” (i.e., extort from those who create it) it to other individuals, groups, unions, farmers, poor, underprivileged, deserving, undeserving, or any other imagined recipient.
We should start by knowing the exact figure in dollars and percentage that is extorted from us each year.