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    Default UO Study finds paying taxes to be pleasurable

    Dammed if I can figure out why, though I feel it's my civic duty to do so and don't mind it, it certainly doesn't resemble sex in any way:

    Want to feel good? Pay taxes! - A UO study finds that making "involuntary payments" lights up the same areas in the brain as food and sex

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    An entity funded by taxpayer dollars came up with this?? Who could have guessed this result?? Astounding!!

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    Hey, the University of Oregon is funded by Nike.

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    Still.....me no likey the I.R.S.

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    Default Re: UO Study finds paying taxes to be pleasurable

    I saw this too ... it's either insanity bred by the US educational system, or a 'stealth' attempt to brainwash the next generation of taxpayers !

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    Well, the snippet described a scenario where 19 (i.e., fewer than two dozen) female volunteers were given $100 and choices of how to give it away charitably. How is that anything like a few hundred million people working through a real-life tax structure?

    I can see where an altruistic person would derive pleasure from giving to their favorite charities. But (news flash!) that's not like a tax.

    The only other thing I can comprehend in parallel is that the thrill of the chase of minimizing taxes might faintly echo the thrill of the chase of a romantic pursuit.

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    Default Re: UO Study finds paying taxes to be pleasurable

    ^^ but the study also looked at their response to involuntary donations. Not a choice of how to give it, but whether or not it was given voluntarily or not. We know the difference between charity and taxation -- the study was about the difference in response between donation (voluntary giving) and taxation (involuntary giving). I find the definitions of altruism especially interesting in that article.

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