It pays your rent and your grocery bill. It also funds the Social Security check you expect in retirement and the Medicare card you’ll carry at age 65, because every dollar you earn is taxed to pay for both. For most of modern history, new technology changed the work people did without erasing the need for people to do it. Farmhands became factory workers. Bank tellers learned to sell mortgages after the ATM arrived. Typists became office managers when the personal computer landed on every desk. Each shift was painful for the people caught in it, but the tax system kept working because people continued to earn paychecks.
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