>Where do they state that? It is a policy that goes back decades. Reagan was notably adamant that "Taxes should hurt" to the point that he opposed the very ide

>Where do they state that? It is a policy that goes back decades. Reagan was notably adamant that "Taxes should hurt" to the point that he opposed the very idea of withholding taxes. He was the reason that California was the last state with an income tax to start automatically withholding taxes. >Higher taxes aren't really more complicated to pay. That isn't the argument. The idea is that the more painful the tax paying process is, the more likely Americans will oppose the very idea of taxes. It is very simple form of Pavlovian conditioning. Preparing taxes is a painful and awful process and people naturally associate that with the very idea of taxes.