>it is totally legal to pay more taxes than you owe, and you can even reclaim the money later if you need to. There is nothing preventing anyone from paying the taxes that they feel that they should owe, in excess of legal requirements.

Gary Trudeau had a story about how he and his wife were always getting audited because they paid more taxes than people in their income bracket normally paid, so that would be one reason why you might not want to pay more than you have to.

also if I thought I should pay more tax I would probably also think the other people like me should pay more tax and since I am probably in competition with them over things I would not like to disarm myself unless they were likewise disarmed.