[untenured]

Tax withholding is a license to steal. For those who are due refunds, money is withheld in excess of what is owed. That money could be invested or spent, and that has to be delayed if not foregone entirely. Set a deadline to pay taxes every year, and let taxpayers cut a check on or before then.

Psychologically, withholding also makes the tax burden invisible except around April 15, thus helping government grow bigger.

But therefore ending it would diminish the power of politicians to buy votes. So it will never happen.

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s the Earned Income Tax Credit “refunds” they are alluding to.

Free Taxpayer money for people who don’t pay Income Taxes, People who work under the table and Illegal Invaders raising their Anchor Babies.