Slay the Withholding Beast
| Few Americans under 65 realize the withholding box on their pay stubs is a relatively recent addition. Federal withholding of income taxes was a ıtemporaryı measure enacted during the Second World War as a means to ensure that the government received desperately needed revenue to fund the war effort. With the very real, terrifying possibility of the fascists taking over the world, most Americans of that age accepted the measure as necessary to defeat the Axis powers centered in Tokyo and Berlin. |
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