I always pay and have always owed taxes every year since I was 16. I not only pay personal income tax, I've got corporate taxes, property taxes, and "self-employment" taxes that I hand over to the IRS every year. Then there's the "foreign income" tax they tell me to pay up front on what they think I'm going to owe from years past, then send me a partial refund check back about 1.5 years later which I then have to add to my US income for the year in which I receive the refund and yet again figure into my personal income tax for the current year I receive the refund. Rube Goldberg couldn't have possibly designed a more unbalanced tax system still full of loop holes favoring even the modestly wealthy.
If everyone making under $250,000 a year with just the standard 2.5 kids and mortgage deductions really knew what was going on, it wouldn't be the small time millionaires playing "tea party" claiming they're being treated unfairly with the current bailout policies. It would be every employee at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, McDonalds, every nurse, general office worker . . . basically the majority of US citizens who cannot finesse their earnings to reflect an illusory "loss" every year who would be going after the "Tea Party" crowd insisting upon chewing out some red, bloody flesh. And I'm not referring to government flesh, the Tea Baggers would suffer the first life-threatening wounds from the great, unwashed masses before the IRS and the government started to feel the bites.
But unlike most people in my tax bracket, I willingly step up to the plate and admit to the taxes I really owe and I pay them. My CPA thinks I'm absolutely crazy.