This is a double edge sword While the Tax Compliance scam is something that needs to be addressed, I am also not a fan of completely automated and "easy" taxat

This is a double edge sword While the Tax Compliance scam is something that needs to be addressed, I am also not a fan of completely automated and "easy" taxation. I think government taking our money should be painful, and in your face. I am not even a fan of automated payroll deduction for this reason, people should experience having the money removed from them every month, week, what ever just like any other bill they have to pay. This psychologically is a check on government overspending as if people were paying 25+% of their income, as a bill payment every month to their government they would be more prone to ask why, instead of what many do today which is just look at their net income and treat the refund as a savings plan or even worse the government "giving" them money We have made it entirely tooooooo easy for governments to take money from us