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Originally Posted by Darkland
Are you stupid or you just didn't read the article?
It didn't SAY 47% of people didn't pay their taxes AT ALL. It said that they didn't have to pay extra, after having paid their taxes out of their weekly checks, or owed anymore at the end of the year. And that many who didn't owe the IRS at the end of the year even got money back for things they qualified for.
If you want to blame someone, blame a broken system where the only answer they ever come up with to try and fix shit is to raise taxes.
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I jumped to conclusions too fast, read Barefootsies headline, skimmed through the article... 47% percent sounded plausible, so I didn't spend too much time analyzing it...
apparently the correct percentage is 24%, which is still quite significant...
"When considering federal income taxes in combination with payroll taxes, the percent of households with a net liability of zero or less is estimated to be 24% this year, according to the Tax Policy Center's estimates."