If we really wanted a Conservative revolution in this country, we would move to ban withholding of taxes from paychecks. If people had to put aside money each paycheck and then write a check to the Federal government on a quarterly basis to cover the taxes they owe, it would be pitchforks and torches time on the National Mall.
I think Jeff Jacoby, the lone conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, makes that appeal quite frequently. And I think it's a fantastic idea, too. Withholding was an invention of World War Two; it was never supposed to be a permanent thing.
At the time of my "conversion," I was a newly-commissioned ensign, stationed in Pensacola, with a new wife and less than five hundred dollars in my savings account. Yet I paid hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars each pay period in taxes---some of which were destined to go to the "poor." I felt that I deserved my own money more than one of those poor people---hell, I couldn't even afford to buy a $20 pair of Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers.