Does Mitt's 47% actually live in Democratic strong hold states?: Uh actually they live GOP states
So where are those 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax?
The Atlantic has the answer, with data from the Tax Foundation. In California, 37 percent of residents pay no income tax, but that only ranks us 16th among the states:
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As the Atlantic notes:
This measures only those Americans who filed for taxes with no liability. Millions more didn’t even file; it’s those millions, added to the estimated 52 million here, who combine to make that 47 percent.
It’s important to remember that just because people aren’t paying income tax doesn’t mean they’re not paying taxes — they pay federal payroll taxes and state and local sales taxes, for example. Once those taxes are factored in, the tax regime is basically flat. And the reason that most income tax nonpayers don’t pay is they simply don’t make enough income to qualify to pay. As one might expect, the map of states with the highest poverty levels resembles this map fairly closely.
- nbarton2 2012/09/19 03:47:54
Wow how about why the hell isn't the President not making a bigger issue of the deaths in the Middle East instead of a comment made by the guy not running the country. I think it kind of matters that the guy currently in charge believes spending time with Jay-Z, Beyonce and Letterman is more important than spending time in security briefings. Not to mention that the fact that he was told 3 days before the incident about these flair ups about to happen. No one seems to want to focus on that but hey lets keep focusing on something insignificant.reply -
- nbarton2 Jeff King 2012/09/19 05:47:33You mean when he gets intelligence maybe he could take a few minutes out of daily meetings with movie stars and actually do his job. Instead of lying to the public about the events in Libya starting out of a protest; which they didn't Libyan intelligence and sources have confirmed this to news agencies. Pinning the blame on an anti-Muslim film while the attack coordinated on 9/11. Had this occurred on a Republican President's watch everyone would be screaming bloody murder and some still blame Bush for 9/11 and there is a whole conspiracy entrenched around it. So yes I expect our intelligence agency and our President to be clairvoyant and do their jobs, not galavant off to Vegas when American soil is being attacked so he can raise a few more dollars.reply
- Rusty Bubbles 2012/09/19 00:33:33+1Reminds me of how liberals / progressives bemoan the plight of the hungry, homeless, and sick .................. from behind their guarded and gated community
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