Now 49.5% of Americans pay no income tax

[off2bed]

Not only do more Americans receive welfare than ever, but more are paying zero income tax.

Virtually half of American taxpayers owe zero.

Let's talk about who's paying their fair share, shall we?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/19...-half-of-all-americans-dont-pay-income-taxes/

 

[JohnnySavage]

Ironically, the one's who moan the loudest about that are in that 49.5%!

 

[exposingsecrets]

Well call them out why don't you. I mean you are either out of work and thus not paying taxes, or you are cheating your employer because you are on their payroll and wasting their payroll dollars on a porn site. So which is it?

 

[Liar]

Yes, it's really sad that so many are jobless, and that so many that have a job are paid so little that they don't even reach the first bracket of the progressive federal income tax.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Not only do more Americans receive welfare than ever, but more are paying zero income tax.

Virtually half of American taxpayers owe zero.

Let's talk about who's paying their fair share, shall we?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/19...-half-of-all-americans-dont-pay-income-taxes/

That's not what the data in your link indicates.

 

[koalabear]

Yes, it's really sad that so many are jobless, and that so many that have a job are paid so little that they don't even reach the first bracket of the progressive federal income tax.

That's what happens when you claim unemployment checks as job creation.

 

[exposingsecrets]

That's what happens when you claim unemployment checks as job creation.

Careful there fuzzy. Seems as though you have made a few claims of your own that are .....shall we say "creative"?

 

[koalabear]

Careful there fuzzy. Seems as though you have made a few claims of your own that are .....shall we say "creative"?

Ask Pelosi, stupid troll.

 

[exposingsecrets]

I will own up to the title of troll for a couple more days. Then when a few things see the light that should've been out there the entire time I will give you one chance to shine your own beacon on your ugly little secret before I do. Just remember, you poked first. Have a good one mate.

 

[koalabear]

I will own up to the title of troll for a couple more days. Then when a few things see the light that should've been out there the entire time I will give you one chance to shine your own beacon on your ugly little secret before I do. Just remember, you poked first. Have a good one mate.

Give it your best shot.

 

[Lord_Steve]

I will own up to the title of troll for a couple more days. Then when a few things see the light that should've been out there the entire time I will give you one chance to shine your own beacon on your ugly little secret before I do. Just remember, you poked first. Have a good one mate.

aaaah you are so bad at this! the whole oracular anonymous keeper of secrets act is so dull dull dull.

 

[Dribble]

If the rich were creating decent jobs, there wouldn't be the widening of the income extremes would there? Decent jobs mean more people pay taxes. It really is simple

 

[mercury14]

Not only do more Americans receive welfare than ever, but more are paying zero income tax.

Virtually half of American taxpayers owe zero.

Let's talk about who's paying their fair share, shall we?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/19...-half-of-all-americans-dont-pay-income-taxes/

That's because they're struggling to get by. I'm glad that people with very little income to tax don't have to give it to the government, aren't you?

Of course they still pay sales tax, property tax, payroll tax, medicare tax, pay into social security, etc.

 

[mercury14]

This Heritage figure counts retirees as Americans not paying income taxes. And stay at home moms/dads. And the disabled. And people who are in college.

Strange that they would count these people.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

This Heritage figure counts retirees as Americans not paying income taxes. And stay at home moms/dads. And the disabled. And people who are in college.

Strange that they would count these people.

It's not strange at all that the "right" deliberately seeks to misinform the gullibles of the conservative crowd.

It's par for the course.

 

[Liar]

This Heritage figure counts retirees as Americans not paying income taxes. And stay at home moms/dads. And the disabled. And people who are in college.

Strange that they would count these people.

They left out the infants? Amateurs.

 

[mercury14]

They left out the infants? Amateurs.

The figure does not include dependents. The headline "49% of Americans pay no income tax" isn't accurate at all.