Eliminate withholding on income taxes. Once people who work for a living actually “feel” just how much in taxes they pay, everything else will take care of itself.
http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1995/1/cj14n3-1.pdf
Evolution of Federal Income Tax Withholding:The Machinery of Institutional Change
Cato Journal. Winter 1995.
That was Milton Freidman's idea --he lived to regret it but not undo it.
Withholding is crazy. It means you have to pay a tax now that may or may not exist until a year later, and if you find out you never had to pay it in the first place they give you your money back w/o interest. The tax may or may not actually end up being levied next year, but you still have to pay it now or you go to jail --even if later on the tax isn't levied anyway.
Now I'm even more confused, does this make any sense to anyone?