The 47%

[Ombudsman]

So the nitwits are wondering who the 47% are. None of them seem to know the answer but none have anything good to say about them. So here are some of the 47% who don't pay federal income taxes.

Students who work part time
Stay at home mothers
Those recently laid off
Retirees
One income families with a shit load of kids
The disabled
Those running a business in the red

Yeah I can see why a group of people who have time sit on-line and bitch 24/7 would have so much contempt for these slackers.

[GoCubsGo]

It goes further than that:

[quote]Who They Are

In 2011, 47% of Americans paid no federal income taxes. Within that group, two-thirds still pay payroll taxes. The rest are almost all either (a) old and retired folks collecting Social Security or (b) households earning less than $20,000. Overall, four out of five households not owing federal income tax earn less than $30,000, according to the Tax Policy Center.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc ... er/262506/

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The 6.9% on that chart includes students and military.

And beside payroll tax, virtually all of the 47% is paying state, county, city, sales, gas, social security, medicare/Medicaid and property tax. And taxes on cigarettes and alcohol.

[GoCubsGo]

What's even more confusing:

Where They Live

From David Graham, here is the graph of the 47% -- a.k.a. "non-payers" -- by state. The ten states with the highest share of "non-payers" are in the states colored red. Most are in southern (and Republican) states. Meanwhile, the 13 states with the smallest share of "non-payers" are in blue. Most are northeastern (and Democratic) states.

[Ombudsman]

Conservative don't mind being protected by a taxpayer funded military, being educated by a taxpayer funded schools system, or being protected by a taxpayer funded police force. They don't mind receiving GI Bills and low interest gov't backed student loans. They want to drive on public streets and send their elderly parents to retirement homes paid with medicaid supplements. They just don't want to have to pay anyone for the services.

Bunch a goddamn freeloading sonsabtiches.