Consider some of the approaches chosen for inducing people to fill out and send in their forms. Harried, she tries to handle the demands of her customers, her small-business boss, and those of her rather hyperactive toddler son. When her boss informs her that she should not be bringing her child in to work, at all, we are expected to empathize and sympathize with her plight. If she performs her patriotic duty and spills her demographic guts to the bean-counters in Washington, D.C., why all manner of manna shall flow from our beneficent leaders. Not only daycare but exercise programs for seniors, job training, education, and on and on are carrots dangled to bribe us into acquiescence with the desires of the State as it seeks to leave us no scintilla of privacy.
Government is the fount of all that is good in our lives.
Banished by the Wizards of Washington who do one better than grow money on trees. That, after all, would take too long. In the battle between privacy and greed, the lamentable reality is that the American public wants both. They have forgotten or chosen to ignore the old adage about paying the piper. That which is yours by right must be supplied by someone else.