LogFAQs > #985826812

a) Filing taxes is complicated, costly, and time-consuming. If you don't see that as a policy designed to prevent people from paying their taxes that's fine but I definitely do.

b) Presumably a government that was capable of passing a law making voting compulsory would also be able to pass a law that allows doing it by mail in advance, etc. We're not dropping compulsory voting onto otherwise unchanged 2025 America just to fuck around and see what happens.

c) Voting being compulsory does not mean that the IRS would need to ruin the life of anyone who doesn't do it. They already don't do that even with not paying taxes, most of the time. I know you're arguing for the worst case scenario here but I'm not sure why The Government of Supervillains in your scenario has decided to use compulsory voting as the method of creating a criminal underclass when they could use anything else and not have a possibility of it backfiring on them by vastly expanding voter turnout.