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# On every payday you get your complete paycheck. There are no deductions. No withheld income tax, no Social Security Tax, no Medicare tax. If you earn $2,000 per week, you get a check for $4,000 every two weeks. You have never had to make a distinction between what you earn and your "take-home pay."
# Throughout your work life, every time you have ever earned a raise where you work, and every time you've ever changed jobs for more pay, you have never had to try to figure out in your mind how much of that raise, or how much of your new paycheck, you are going to be able to "keep." A $5,200 per year raise has always meant an extra $200 every other week in your paycheck.
# You have never had to save receipts or create any records pertaining to federal taxes. The only real purpose you have for a receipt is in case you want to return that ugly dress your husband bought for you.
# You have always been able to invest what you earn without first having to pay any federal taxes on it. Every time you've had money left over at the end of the month you've put that money into a savings account or other investment. That money has never been taxed, nor has the interest you earned and nor has the gains on your investment.
# When your parents died they left all they had for you, just as their parents did for them. There were no taxes when your parent's inherited your grandparent's estate, and no taxes to be paid when you inherited from your parents. You know that you will be able to leave whatever you have earned and accumulated to whomever you wish[3] without any tax consequences. You have never known the death of a loved one to be a taxable event.
# Every time you have gone to the store to buy an item, and the price tag said $19.99, you have handed a $20 bill to the cashier and received one penny as change. All your life the price tag on the item has been the price you paid at the cash register, all of your life the tax man has taken his 23% out of that purchase price, and all your life that stupid little trick of trying to make something appear to be cheaper by lopping one cent of the price has ticked you off.
# There are four people in your household. You, your spouse and two rug rats. At the beginning of every month you get a check or a credit to your checking or charge card account in the amount of $506.00 to compensate you for the federal sales taxes that are included in the price of everything you are expected to buy during that month -- right up to the poverty level. You know now, as you have always known, that you can purchase the basic necessities for your family without paying any tax whatsoever to the federal government.
# For you, paying taxes to the federal government has always been voluntary. You save your money after providing the basics to your family, and you're not taxed. You spend your money, you are taxed. Your choice.
# You have never had to fill out a federal tax return.
# You've never received a letter from the IRS.
# For all you know an IRS agent is someone who works for the Iowa Railroad System.
# You have never had your bank make a report to the federal government on your deposit or withdrawal habits, either with or without your knowledge.
# The federal government has never surreptitiously gone to your bank to peer through your statements for the past seven years.
# Though you've never heard of something called the Alternative Minimum Tax, the very sound of that phrase is unsettling to you.
# You have had to hide under your bed to avoid getting a good job, such being the strength of the American economy.
# You have never known of any instance where any politician in Washington has ever tried to use federal tax policy to control your behavior in any way.
# Throughout your work life, every time you have ever earned a raise where you work, and every time you've ever changed jobs for more pay, you have never had to try to figure out in your mind how much of that raise, or how much of your new paycheck, you are going to be able to "keep." A $5,200 per year raise has always meant an extra $200 every other week in your paycheck.
# You have never had to save receipts or create any records pertaining to federal taxes. The only real purpose you have for a receipt is in case you want to return that ugly dress your husband bought for you.
# You have always been able to invest what you earn without first having to pay any federal taxes on it. Every time you've had money left over at the end of the month you've put that money into a savings account or other investment. That money has never been taxed, nor has the interest you earned and nor has the gains on your investment.
# When your parents died they left all they had for you, just as their parents did for them. There were no taxes when your parent's inherited your grandparent's estate, and no taxes to be paid when you inherited from your parents. You know that you will be able to leave whatever you have earned and accumulated to whomever you wish[3] without any tax consequences. You have never known the death of a loved one to be a taxable event.
# Every time you have gone to the store to buy an item, and the price tag said $19.99, you have handed a $20 bill to the cashier and received one penny as change. All your life the price tag on the item has been the price you paid at the cash register, all of your life the tax man has taken his 23% out of that purchase price, and all your life that stupid little trick of trying to make something appear to be cheaper by lopping one cent of the price has ticked you off.
# There are four people in your household. You, your spouse and two rug rats. At the beginning of every month you get a check or a credit to your checking or charge card account in the amount of $506.00 to compensate you for the federal sales taxes that are included in the price of everything you are expected to buy during that month -- right up to the poverty level. You know now, as you have always known, that you can purchase the basic necessities for your family without paying any tax whatsoever to the federal government.
# For you, paying taxes to the federal government has always been voluntary. You save your money after providing the basics to your family, and you're not taxed. You spend your money, you are taxed. Your choice.
# You have never had to fill out a federal tax return.
# You've never received a letter from the IRS.
# For all you know an IRS agent is someone who works for the Iowa Railroad System.
# You have never had your bank make a report to the federal government on your deposit or withdrawal habits, either with or without your knowledge.
# The federal government has never surreptitiously gone to your bank to peer through your statements for the past seven years.
# Though you've never heard of something called the Alternative Minimum Tax, the very sound of that phrase is unsettling to you.
# You have had to hide under your bed to avoid getting a good job, such being the strength of the American economy.
# You have never known of any instance where any politician in Washington has ever tried to use federal tax policy to control your behavior in any way.
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