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Like 90% of US taxes are collected automatically, I don't think it would work even if people were into the idea. A little over half of Americans get money back on their taxes when they file them, because the government automatically took more than it should have from their paychecks.
But yeah it is a huge contradiction that Americans seemingly don't trust their government, but love their military and police. Personally I think the rhetoric around not trusting government is just a cultural shibboleth that right wingers hijack to justify reducing social spending and not a real thing that people believe.
I don't think it's "right wing" (it is bourgeois, but not right wing in the cultural sense). I think it's just as prevalent in all sectors of hegemonic culture: Americans are superior people because they are free thinkers who know better than to trust their government. From the moment the nation came to be that's more or less been a constant. But it's wholly contradictory to the absolute subservience to empire that the American state demands (Actually Existing Liberalism).