LOSING AMERICA: Percentage of Americans Who Pay No Income Tax Hits 49.5... (Obama's Goal Just 1% Away!)

Every American citizen needs to understand the Marxist tactics being used by the Obama administration to destroy capitalism and prosperity in this country. Farah did a good job explaining the Cloward-Piven strategy in 8 minutes, but I don't think it will compensate for generations of revisionist history, disinformation, indoctrination and the deliberate dumbing down of the populace at the hands of the government schools and Marxist University professors. Dumb voters better wake up...

Percentage of Americans Who Pay No Income Tax Hits 49.5

This year’s Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid or other assistance. (See last week’s chart.)

Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who don’t pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal benefits.

“One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding growth in the non-taxpaying public,” wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell. “The percentage of people who do not pay federal income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone who does pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in 2009.”

That means 151.7 million Americans paid nothing in 2009. By comparison, 34.8 million tax filers paid no taxes in 1984. READ MORE...


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