Nearly Half of All Americans Don’t Pay Income Taxes

Yes. Isn't that what we're talking about?

NO ONE doesn't pay ANY taxes, right?

 

I would never use Rachel Maddow as my sole source for any thread I started. The former RNC Chairman is an employee of MSNBC. Not sure what you are trying to get at with that statement. If a recent former DNC chairman takes a job at the Heritage Foundation come back and we'll talk.

 

Around 19 percent of the population pays no federal income or payroll tax.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/federal-taxes-households.cfm

 

not all of them....

just most of them...

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/412106_federal_income_tax.pdf

The second reason is that for many senior citizens, Social Security benefits are exempt from federal income taxes. That accounts for about 22% of the people who pay no federal income tax.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/D...o-half-of-Americans-pay-no-federal-income-tax

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/1001547-Why-No-Income-Tax.pdf

 

Some get back thousand to tens of thousand back more than they put in depending on how large their family is with the EITC.

 

Then don't post lies. The forum is searchable. If their is a cache of Rachel Maddow quotes by me you should be able to find them in five minutes. This is what I have a problem with. Instead of taking two seconds on the internet to come up with a well researched well sourced statement people would rather be willfully ignorant and post lies. If I am citing Rachel Maddow as a source on multiple occasions it should be very easy for you to illustrate this. The fact that you haven't indicates your post is a lie. Your cop out about not "remembering" is a sad attempt to cover up your slander and personal attack on me.

 

Last time I checked five year olds didn't go to college.

 

I asked for some stats from mello to back up his assertion, do you have any to post for him?

 

All 50% of the americans are not the problem. If this statistic is taking into account the entire population then its really a certain group of that 50%

1) Factor in all the millions of minors and college students. When you are under 18, its very difficult to get a job. Its possible, but 99% of jobs probably require at least 18. Either way, at 16, school should be your job so you can get a better *job* when you get older. During college, its also tough to get a job, because of all the workload assuming you don't joke around and actually take classes to study. In a bad economy its even harder.
2) Next factor in the retirement...there are millions of seniors in the country also.

A more accurate assessment would be 50% of the qualified to work population does not pay income tax. The number would surely be less, but sadly rather high since most of those people sit around on OWS protests with nothing better to do.

 

Good post... until you claimed that most of the millions of people that are unemployed are "sitting around on OWS protests." Where do you you live? Is there a local OWS encampment in your city? Are there hundreds of thousands of people huddled in the snow there?

I don't understand. You started off with a very good well reasoned post. Why did you feel the need to say something that was obviously a lie?

 

I just figured you ignored me proving you wrong like you normally do

 

I criticized your post but you still got repped. 95% of it was dead on.

 

I was only able to find one MSNBC citation in a minute's worth of searching.

Now, what about your other account?

 

I'd be 100% in agreement with this statement if our tax code weren't such a boondoggle. Income tax is but one of many, many taxes paid at both the state and local level. So while, yes, it is a shame that such a large number of people are non-contributors in regards to income tax, they do contribute to the economy overall through other types of taxes.

It really comes back to an old adage, you can't get blood from an orange.

 

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/412106_federal_income_tax.pdf

Is that supposed to be funny? Look at the date June 7, 2010? Besides it make no reference to age.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/D...o-half-of-Americans-pay-no-federal-income-tax

Those numbers simply don't add up 50% low income + 22% old folks + 15% Children adds up to 87% not 100%.

 

Thanks for the rep.
The reason I jabbed OWS, is, because they are blaming the wrong people. If they were protesting against government...ie capital hill, white house...etc, then that would be fine. They however are protesting and trashing the wrong people. Wall street had nothing to do with the mortgage crisis or economic collapse. The government was the root cause of the problem. OWS seems to not understand it. They understand how to properly organize, make interactive websites, but yet they cannot understand the simple concept of how the government was the root cause of the recession and that problems are not caused by the private sector (at least not anymore).

Not to mention the individuals in wall street collectively pay more taxes probably than most of the rest of the world combined, so OWS is protesting the very hand that will/does feed them when they get into government programs.

 

Thanks Bush and the Republicans.