Great article, but I wish there was some way to make it real for most taxpayers The quickest way to "make it real" would be a simple change in the tax law...Dont change the tax rates, dont change a thing...just do away with Employer withholding...and give all of the money to the person who makes it, and make it his responsibility to send the goons their corn every two weeks....
Thats it...that is all you need to do....what precipitates out of that who knows...but tax revolt would be certain...
You are both right that a simple change in existing tax law would do what we here all want, which is to make people aware of what they really pay. But the fact that it would be simple does not mean it will ever happen.
But I honestly do not know what it will take to change the method of tax collection from a 3rd party withholding system in light of the fact that those who have benefitted from it so well will never allow even the dialog much less the changes to happen.
They all know that it is this very system that has made the 'boiling frogs' syndrome possible with taxes in this country. Americans would have never tolerated the present size of government with its resulting level of taxation without it. Those who intend to take even more of what we earn in the future will do anything to keep it.