You know, as soon as government demands to know exactly what you’ve earned, you really don’t have a Fourth Amendment any more.
We have to have taxes to pay for the legitimate tasks we have appointed to government.
The least intrusive, most efficient, simplest means of collecting it is a retail sales tax.
I understand. I was just wondering what it would take to wake people up to what their true tax burden really is. Sending everyone a bill instead of withholding pay-as-you-go might do it. But the tax bill writers knew the slow-boil pot was the way to do it to keep the torches and pitchforks away.