Cant believe I’m voluntarily learning more about taxes
Whenever someone says they should teach high schoolers this you should frankly just laugh bc no high schooler would retain or care about this
also, generally the average person's exposure to serious Tax Issues is not happening in their teens or even their 20s (inheritance, purchasing a house, getting married , issues around dependants etc)
if you want people to learn and retain tax info there should be a mandatory class when you turn 30
obviously almost everyone pays taxes in their 20s but also if you are single, childless, rent and have a w2 your tax issues are simply not complex.
i think this is a Thing for various Journalists because journalists DO generally have complex taxes (they're contractors with multiple sources of income) but like, the average person is not getting dozens of 1099s and having to withhold their own taxes
