47% will pay no federal income tax(CNN/Money article)

CNN/Money.com ^ | Jeanne Sahadi

[Intolerant in NJ]

So CNN is finally waking up to the fact that half the people in this country pay not income taxes - next time they yap about “tax cuts for the rich”, maybe they’ll stop long enough to remember that the rich are the only ones paying taxes, so naturally they get the tax cuts......

[nascarnation]

Game over. We’re done.

That's why the Baraqqis are going to be more difficult to get rid of than many think.

[jesseam]

Absolutely not! Freeloaders are those who have never been productive citizens and remain so at their choice and remain on the public dole. I am sure you are now or have been a productive citizen. I am 100% disabled from combat in Iraq so I am at an end of my productive days, but not my choice. :-)

[The Comedian]

I'm going to join their numbers.

I'm going black market, Geitner/Rangel style.

No Freedom for Me?
No Taxes for Thee!

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[JRandomFreeper]

The freeloaders pay more in taxes than I do, just by being stupid. Your comment was "Only taxpayers should be allowed to vote PERIOD!"

Perhaps those that get paid money or receive a benefit from a government shouldn't be allowed to vote.

/johnny

[BobbyT]

It doesn’t have to reach 51%, because you also have bluebloods with trust funds who don’t care how high the income tax goes (Kennedys, Kerrys, etc), spoiled college kids who’ve never lived in the real world and use Daddy’s money to insulate them from bad decisions, and various other champagne socialists.

[Dov in Houston]

Following your posts Johnny because their are many of us in the same predicament. I paid in HIGH HIGH until I lost all

[JRandomFreeper]

Trust me, I would have loved to pay a few million dollars in taxes at a 10% rate(dreaming again) for FY09. I would have eaten a lot fewer beans.

But to be told that my vote should be void because I pay no federal taxes this year grates on me, as a conservative.

I believe in maintaining as low a tax profile as legally possible, and the supreme court agrees. For purported 'conservatives' to love taxation so much that they use it as a touchstone of the franchise, is beyond me.

Now, taking money from government, or benefit from government, I can see that as a cut-point. There is a clear conflict of interest when people that get money from the government are allowed to vote.

/johnny

[familyop]

Good! The sooner the defaults happen,the better! ...new leadership in politics, business (those who control the politicians), academics...all, at every level!

[familyop]

"Who are these ppl on the dole? Anyone here? A thank you is the least you could offer."

Well, they're not teachers, other government employees, corporate bailout recipients, politicians or diplomats, of course.

[Little irony, sarcasm and humor there.]

[LeonardFMason]

If some pay, ALL should pay. It’s the principle of the thing. Otherwise, 71 million should be sending Thank You notes to the taxpayers.

[4woodenboats]

Unless they're in prison, or living off the land, making their own clothes and eating anything that doesn't bite them 1st, they are paying taxes of some sort.

It might not be fair, and it will certainley be going up by leaps and bounds for everyone, but if you cook the food someone else paid for and turn on the light to see wth you're doing, you're still going to pay taxes on the utilities.

If you buy second hand shoes to go beg with, you'll pay taxes.

President Bush's tax cuts were responsible for over 10 million low income people not paying any income tax at all, while lowering the rates all across the board.

The result? We recovered from the dot com bust recession and 911 recession with LESS tax money, and a fraction of "stimulus" programs, such as that $600 check that most people got right away.

Before long, we were back around 5% unemployment, and no trillion dollar failed experiments, with many more in the works

I don't worry so much about people not spending taxes on wasted dollars as I worry about the government wasting money in the 1st place.

Even in the 1st few years after 911, the rats wouldn't let a military appropriation go through unless it had at least 50% pork - one year it took 5-6 months of Pelosi, Murtha, et al waving all that pork he'd have to allow if our guys were going to get their supplies, and then have the gall to claim that Bush got us in a quagmire, along with a commercial depicting our military surrendering, with muck up to their waist and rifles over their heads.

[LeonardFMason]

“they are paying taxes of some sort.”

Obviously we all pay taxes of some kind. My point is that some, unfairly, pay no federal income tax. It isn’t right.
EVERYONE should pay federal income tax. I don’t care if it’s only 1% of their income. In addition, everytime the federal income tax is raised it is raised for everyone. Only then, when everyone is a victim of rising taxes, will EVERYONE be sensitized to how the US Government is spending OUR tax dollars.

[kabar]

I agree with you. You pay payroll taxes, which are still income taxes only they are separated as a bookkeeping scam to disguise what they really are.

[kabar]

Payroll taxes are really federal income taxes. The SS "surplus" is deposited into the General Fund. By law, 75% of Medicare Part B and Part D costs come from the General Fund. By 2014, 45% of all Medicare expenditures (Parts A, B, and D) will come from the General Fund.

80% of Americans pay more in payroll tax than they do in income tax.

[JimRed]

When it goes above 50%, we’re toast!

[JimRed]

I am 100% disabled from combat in Iraq so I am at an end of my productive days, but not my choice.

The difference is that you will keep looking for a way to be productive, and if you find it you will do it. The leeches will avoid it at all cost.

[jesseam]

Thanks for the kind words. My contribution is to work with a retired Major General to help other disabled vets. A lot of them have issues that are not being addressed properly.