They weren't paying less. They never updated their W4 with HR and so the same exact amount of taxes was still being taken out, and so they were still receiving the exact same amount of pay. Then they filed their taxes and saw that they owed a lot of money because withholdings were never adjusted.

You realize taxes are necessary right? Without taxes we wouldn't have highways, which were made after ww2

It's also incredibly incorrect. Tax systems have been known to exist even in Ancient Egypt as far back as 3000BC.

I'll give #32 the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant that income tax did not exist in the US before WWI.

I'm not 100% sure how taxes work in the US, but over here you yourself are personally responsible for your own tax status and documents. If they make a mistake and you don't see it because you never bothered to double-check your tax forms, it is your own fault.

Uh, no.

@45 It works that way in the U.S., too.

Sooo far from accurate.