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<blockquote data-quote="CatDaddy" data-source="post: 129034" data-attributes="member: 755"><p>I had to share this paragraph that I had to read in a financial class I'm taking at NDSU. I'm really happy to pay them tuition so I could learn this. I'll leave it for the group to weigh in on. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">"Surprisingly, your brain may like paying taxes!</span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">Recent research suggests that people can feel good about paying taxes that improve others’ well-being.</span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">While most people would prefer to keep their money rather than pay taxes, paying taxes still is not the same thing as throwing the money away.</span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">Taxes can be viewed, even if only subconsciously, as a social good.</span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">And people don’t like inequality and seek to preserve a positive self-image, which means that most are unlikely to cheat on their taxes.</span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">Interestingly, there is evidence that many people work harder when they realize that they will be taxed.</span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">In a recent experiment, participants worked harder when paid $100 and there was a $10 tax than when they were paid $90 with no taxes due"</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CatDaddy, post: 129034, member: 755"] I had to share this paragraph that I had to read in a financial class I'm taking at NDSU. I'm really happy to pay them tuition so I could learn this. I'll leave it for the group to weigh in on. [COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']"Surprisingly, your brain may like paying taxes![/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']Recent research suggests that people can feel good about paying taxes that improve others’ well-being.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']While most people would prefer to keep their money rather than pay taxes, paying taxes still is not the same thing as throwing the money away.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']Taxes can be viewed, even if only subconsciously, as a social good.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']And people don’t like inequality and seek to preserve a positive self-image, which means that most are unlikely to cheat on their taxes.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']Interestingly, there is evidence that many people work harder when they realize that they will be taxed.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']In a recent experiment, participants worked harder when paid $100 and there was a $10 tax than when they were paid $90 with no taxes due"[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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