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Imagine going to the only grocery store available, there are no prices on any of the items, you shop there because you're starving and have no choice.
You go to the checkout after each time you shop and there is a single cashier that says this:
"Fuck you. In about a couple months we'll demand that you figure out how much you owe us. If you don't figure it out then we'll potentially place criminal charges against you. Thanks for shopping here."
You realize that you have no fucking clue about how much the stuff you bought costs because it changes all the time and nothing is labelled and there's no system for keeping track.
Welcome to the tax system in America.
It only works that way if you are willfully ignorant. As does everything else in the world.
You can easily calculate your taxes, and your necessary withholdings from that on your W4. There's even a stupid simple grid to match your income to on one of the pages...
It's like a grocery store where you know the prices, but they're rounded to the nearest $0.01. but at checkout you have to make up the difference that wasn't shown on the price tags. Which overall constitutes a minimal portion of your overall bill.