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Okay, but to be fair, school does not teach about taxes.
Probably because if they did, they would have a neverending supply of rebellious little adults on their hands, from either side of the political sphere.
This is not very helpful when you're making little cog workers and soldier yes men.
I do volunteer work in schools and have a unit focused on taxes. It's always funny to see little 2nd graders go "wait, I don't get to keep all of my money?!"
But then we do explain that taxes pay for important stuff, like the school we're in and their teacher's salary.
Yeah, but once you get them a few years older, you need to start explaining the less useful things taxes go into and how divisive the entire topic is.