[P-40]

You're missing on the active verb.

No, I'm just not interested in foolishness. I also get a paycheck and it quite clearly says I paid OASDI, FICA, etc. and the fact that the accounting department forwards the money on to the federal government for me is a moot point. Unless you are willing to excuse the American public of what would amount to extreme stupidity you have no point.

[discostu]

It's not foolishness. I said one of the reasons people don't think about the government much is the lack of direct interaction with it. Direct interaction requires an active verb. We'd have a vastly different situation in this country if we had to directly pay our taxes on pay day rather than our employer calculating the government's cut and taking it from our check before we even see it. It's not an excuse, it's reality, the way the government collects taxes is explicitly designed to cut down on the direct interaction with government so we don't think about it very often, helps keeps the populace from getting annoyed.