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Here Are The 47% Of The Population Who Don't Pay Federal Income Tax
Mitt Romney's latest campaign setback is a leaked video that shows him slagging the 47 percent of the population who, he says, will always vote for Barack Obama, because they want everything for free from the government.
The 47 percent number presumably refers to the percent of the population who don't pay Federal Income Taxes, which of course is just one kind of tax. From the Tax Policy Center, these three pie charts show who those people are. But back to the 47 percent. There are two primary ways to pay no (or negative) federal income taxes. The first is to be poor, and the second is to be elderly. In 2011, of the 18.1 percent of American households who paid no federal tax (meaning, no federal income or payroll tax), more than half were elderly, and most of the other half were non-elderly people making below $20,000 a year. The other sliver, roughly one in 20 non-payers, were people who made more than $20,000 in household income. The reason being poor helps is because, with a combination of tax credits (like the earned income credit and the child credit) and deductions, many people earning under $20,000 a year can zero out their overall rate. The primary reason being elderly helps is that Social Security benefits aren't taxed as income, so if all (or most) of your income comes from your monthly Social Security check, your taxable income is marginal or non-existent. So there you have it. The poor and elderly. Meanwhile, Jim Antle at the conservative site The Daily Caller makes another salient point: The elimination of taxes on the very poor has been GOP policy starting with Reagan, and continuing through Bush: When Ronald Reagan signed into law the Tax Reform Act of 1986, he boasted, “Millions of the working poor will be dropped from the tax rolls altogether, and families will get a long-overdue break with lower rates and an almost doubled personal exemption.” Both the initial Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and indexing income taxes to inflation in 1985 had a similar effect. In the 1990s, the Republican-controlled Gingrich Congress passed a $500 per child tax credit that also wiped out the income tax liability of many low- to moderate-income households. “Fully 93 percent of the tax relief in our bill goes to taxpayers with annual incomes under $100,000, 76 percent goes to taxpayers with incomes under $75,000,” then-House Ways and Means Committe Chairman Bill Archer, a Texas Republican, said at the time. “If ever there was a tax plan for America’s forgotten middle class, this is it.” Romney's 47% Who Don't Pay Federal Taxes - Business Insider |
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What is the difference: payroll and income tax | Library Answer Person Federal income tax <> payroll tax. Unless Duke University is not an adequate "Fact Checker" for your taste. |
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Am I surprised ? Not so much... |
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Of the 47% he slighted, 28% of them still pay Medicare and Social Security taxes. 10% are elderly with SS being their only source of income. SS benefits are not taxed. What dumbass thinks all the retirees are voting for Obama? Your only real beef is with the 7%. You know, that group of high rollers flipping burgers at McDonalds. And as the article indicates, you can thank Ronald Reagan for the tax breaks for that group. |
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And your messiah would do well to take a lesson from that. Even though Reagan may or may not have liked the EITC, he worked with the people across the aisle to reach a compromise (a word Obama clearly has no understanding of) to create a workable peice of tax legislation that moved the country forward. |
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These are the people that make your meals, clean your house, work on your car and maintain your lawn. These are the hard working Americans that bust their ass so you and I can live comfortable lives. These are the people who you just said "contribute nothing to the country". So what would you have the guy making minimum wage contribute to national defense? What would you tell the MILLIONS of Americans making $7.25 an hour that they need to contribute? How much more of the $290.00 per week do they owe? And really his take home is going to be closer to $260 after FICA and any state taxes, so how much more is this guy that takes home about $1,000 a month to live on supposed to pay? What would you then have the seniors living on SS contribute? Exactly why are you so eager to take from those with the least to give while excusing 15% capital gains taxes on billionaires? |
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They bust their asses so I can live a comfortable life?!?!? Oh, holy shit. |
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You can't support yourself or a family on a minimum wage job. Why is it you felt entitled to have kids and start a family if you are working a minimum wage job? I didn't do that. Why do others feel it is OK to do just that? Well, it's OK, Bill will pay for our baby's birth, the WIC, food stamps, free housing, and other goodies.....after all, Bill owes me. I work at a fast food joint. Color me unimpressed. Those folks need to have skin in the game, just like me. |
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Somehow along the way, our society has come to the moronic expectation that people are somehow entitled to go straight to a comfortable life full of sunshine and rainbows and skip right over all of the hard work and sacrifice that it takes to get there. |
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Phil, this is why no one wants to do what you call debating. I addressed each point in your previous post. You respond by ignoring most of it and taking one sentence to go on a leftist rant worthy of Alinsky's hand puppet. But I have time to kill so I'll take a swing again
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I employ roughly 85 people, the lowest salaried of which received $30,200 last year plus benefits. I bet, even given that, 2/3 of them fall in the "no income taxes" category. Your argument is complete shit. To give you an example that you can relate to, the equivalent of telling me I need to pay people more than they are worth would be for you to toss in an extra $30,000 to the purchase price of the boat you just ordered for the sole purpose of distributing it to the people who actually built it. Bet that didn't happen. Quote:
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I don't know why all the discussion. What Romney said is correct, the numbers hunt and the people living on entitlements and no taxes are mostly off the table for Romney. Where's the controversy?
JC, you can divide the population however you want, but 46.4% of the public do not contribute to the tax base, that's just a fact. I can't wait to see the surprise on many of their faces when the Bush tax cuts go away in a few months and suddenly the majority of them will be paying taxes, bet they'll change their tune then. |
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Debate the facts and intent of his comments all day long.
There's no denying this is hurting him. |
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There are 2 reasons. First, is anybody actually on the fence in this election? Not that I know of. The candidates are so polarizing that a single comment of this magnitude is not going to cause someone to make the jump. Someone may disagree with what he says, but they are not going to change their entire political stance based on it and all of a sudden decide that Obama is a better choice. The exception is a comment of the "you didn't build that" magnitude. Even then, I think it definitely solidified the position of a lot of small business owners but didn't necessarily change any of them over to Romney. Those voting for Obama simply attribute it to taken out of context, or whatever other spin liberals put on it. Long story short, with such polarizing candidates, people aren't easily swayed from 1 to the other. Second, we are getting closer to November and point blank, the media is going to be on the side of Obama. They always have been and always will be. No matter what Romney says, they will spin it into a negative. No matter what Obama says, they will spin it positive. Romney's only chance is that a whole lot of people capabable of thinking for themselves show up to vote. |
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Darwinism must be taught in schools but they don't want it to happening real like., Some people are born stupid, Some people are born lazy. Some are born stupid and lazy. Why is it our responsibility to feed and cloth them? And what happened BEFORE big government? Were there bodies stacked in the streets? People dieing of malnutrition? NO they lived with less and worked two jobs. It sucked but thats life. |
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Novel idea, eh? |
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