Withholding income taxes from one's check is a clever innovation of Government. Most Americans have grown so accustomed to this that they don't even bat an eyelash at their "gross" pay. Most don't have a fucking clue what they pay in taxes. If they had to write that annual, quarterly or monthly check and send it to the US Government in r…
Withholding income taxes from one's check is a clever innovation of Government. Most Americans have grown so accustomed to this that they don't even bat an eyelash at their "gross" pay. Most don't have a fucking clue what they pay in taxes. If they had to write that annual, quarterly or monthly check and send it to the US Government in return for absolutely nothing I guarantee they would be spitting fire in anger.
The other clever innovation is making people pay property taxes from an escrow account controlled by their mortgage lender. Most of these doofuses don't have a clue how much they pay in property taxes either because the damned banks pay it directly to the County.
Withholdings are evil and without them I believe we would have a different tax situation. Probably a much better tax situation.
Agreed! I can tell you not one of my employees looked at the amount of taxes taken out of their check. They just looked at the bottom line. And most bragged how much they were "getting back" at tax time.
Withholding income taxes from one's check is a clever innovation of Government. Most Americans have grown so accustomed to this that they don't even bat an eyelash at their "gross" pay. Most don't have a fucking clue what they pay in taxes. If they had to write that annual, quarterly or monthly check and send it to the US Government in return for absolutely nothing I guarantee they would be spitting fire in anger.
The other clever innovation is making people pay property taxes from an escrow account controlled by their mortgage lender. Most of these doofuses don't have a clue how much they pay in property taxes either because the damned banks pay it directly to the County.
Withholdings are evil and without them I believe we would have a different tax situation. Probably a much better tax situation.
Agreed! I can tell you not one of my employees looked at the amount of taxes taken out of their check. They just looked at the bottom line. And most bragged how much they were "getting back" at tax time.