Originally Posted by Robbie

Tax "refunds" have always been a way for the govt. to keep people from rising up against taxation.

People who own their own business and have to cut a check to the govt. every quarter KNOW what is happening.

But the employees of this world? They never see the money. It's gone from their paycheck before they even get it.

And then after a year they get a refund check. And everybody is "rich" in the trailer park for a day.
These people have never had a thousand dollars of more at one time in their possession. So they think they "got money" from the govt.

What they don't understand is: They were being OVERCHARGED in their withholding taxes and the govt. had their money INTEREST FREE for the year.

Then at the end of the year they get their "tax refund"...which is actually their own money all along that was being kept from them.

And what do they do? They rejoice! They celebrate getting their own money back with no interest from the govt.

Sheep.