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If you want to maximize the painfulness of paying taxes, why not just have everyone pay their income tax as a lump sum instead of the current system where emplo
by uiri 15y ago
If you want to maximize the painfulness of paying taxes, why not just have everyone pay their income tax as a lump sum instead of the current system where employers have to withhold an estimate of an employee's tax burden and then the employee has to compute the difference between their actual tax burden and the estimate and get it fixed.
Of course, if you did that, people might try to pay taxes using their credit cards.
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- premchai21 15y agoIt is actually possible, though not necessarily advisable, to pay US taxes using credit cards: http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=101316,00.html http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=101316,00.html
- adavies42 15y agothat's how it worked for the first thirty years or so, until Milton Friedman(!) invented withholding. the point was, surprise surprise, to provide a more reliable revenue stream for the government.