[LostInBayport]

For some of us we and the employer are one and the same and each quarter we damn well know exactly how much we are paying in taxes!

My first year of self-employment was revelatory in this respect. Eye-opening and horrifying.

EVERYBODY NEEDS TO WRITE A CHECK ONCE A QUARTER FOR TAXES!

I think it would create enough of an attitude shift to allow us to once again outnumber the takers and perhaps even create enough anger to cause a reduction in the size of government at all levels. The 'slow bleed' format of taxes being deducted before the money gets into the hand of the earner is insidious.

[Sequoyah101]

I always knew how much taxes were and how much of it was FICA medicare and have always considered the employer side paid money that would be available for someone, maybe me?

I think it would cause a revolution that is long over due if people had to write checks for ALL their taxes.

The drones think self-employed just make tons of money but have no idea what the self-employed have to either pay for or simply can’t get, like disability, that employees are provided. NO Idea and most don’t even know how to add it up.