Gotcha - follow ya' there.
Now then, if we did the lump sum payment to the feds each year and didn't get all crazy with tax code, how would we all feel on the very next week after that, all the welfare recipients would get paid a one year's lump sum check?
Sufficed to say, things would be a lot different.
Maybe that's the game after all. Make us dizzy first, then take from our pockets.