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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A little off topic, but pertinent to the discussion of why everyone should pay some federal income tax if they earn wages.  We have close to 50% of the population paying no federal income tax.  Those individual's have no incentive to elect leaders who will be good use our federal monies prudently.  We have a tremendous amount of waste in our system that most of us would never allow in our own budgets.  It is time for all American's to demand accountability for spending and sadly, that will never happen as long as close to half take out but don't pay in.[/quote]

First, it's not always half. It varies year to year. For instance, it was under 40% in 2007.

Second, most (but not all) are ederly or families making under $20k/yr.  I honestly don't know how anyone can think they can afford to pay taxes. Are you assuming they are lazy, maybe work part time?  Possibly you missed the news, but unemployment is high right now, not just because people are too lazy to work.

Check out this data from 2009:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/1001289_who_pays.pdf
$75,000-$100,000  9.2% Tax Units with Zero or Negative Individual Income Tax Liability
$100,000-$200,000 3.5% Tax Units with Zero or Negative Individual Income Tax Liability
$200,000-$500,000 2.0% Tax Units with Zero or Negative Individual Income Tax Liability
$500,000-$1,000,000 2.0% Tax Units with Zero or Negative Individual Income Tax Liability
Over $1,000,000 1.5% Tax Units with Zero or Negative Individual Income Tax Liability

[b]These are the folks that need to start paying their fair share.[/b]
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This.  Stop with the &quot;50% or Americans pay no tax&quot; nonsense.  Nickels and dimes from those families making &lt;$50,000 are a spit in the ocean -- and won't amount to anything significant for you, me, or our country. I don't care about your empathy or compassion; you're acting stupid. You (maybe another) keep posting this same comment completely ignoring actual facts as pp has shown. Your ignorance is appalling.   
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Maybe you didn't read what I wrote??? I was refering to those making over 75k that aren't paying any taxes. 1.5% of poeple making over a million dollars in 2009 paid no federal income tax.[/quote]

I agree with you.  I was (inartfully) using your data to try to stop the pp parrot who keeps squawking about the &lt;$50,000 families who don't pay their &quot;fair share.&quot;[/quote]

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