My daughter works in WA state where there is no state income tax. But the outfit she works for is located in NY state. The outfit changed their payroll software, and by mistake tagged her as resident of NY state. So there is this extra deduction in her paycheck for state taxes. She did not think anything about it, chalking it off to less hours worked or something. I saw her paycheck stub and asked her why she has to pay NY state income tax? Amazing disregard of taxes!

I used to have a colleague, who never bothered opening his paycheck envelopes for several pay periods! He was living with parents so I guess did not need the cash.

Then there is this joke about a worker asks his boss when he expects to get a raise. Boss says "I gave you a raise 2 months ago"! Oh the man mutters, my wife never told me.

It was deliberately frontloaded so that nearly every employee subject to withholding would see at least slightly higher take-home pay this year.

Wealthy donors gave them huge campaign contributions they used to get re-elected and to funnel money into their pockets to give them a windfall tax break where they would make billions from it. Even openly threatened them pass this or else, so this isn't a surprise people now are realizing trump and the gop conned them , and lied. Just like they're doing on everything else. Its all an act .