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last year: Forty-seven percent of Americans don't pay any taxes. John McCain and Sarah Palin both said simlair things during the 2008 campaign, and Ari Fleischer, former Bush White House spokesman, once said that 50 percent of the country gets benefits without paying for them. Actually, they pay plenty in taxes, just not a lot of federal income taxes.Data from the Tax Foundation shows that in 2008, the average income for the bottom half of taxpayers was $15,300. This year, the first $9,350 of income for singles and $18,700 for married couples is exempt from taxes—just slightly more than in 2008. That means millions of the poor don't make enough to owe income taxes.But they still pay plenty of other taxes, including federal payroll taxes. Between gas taxes, sales taxes, utility taxes and other taxes, no one lives tax-free in America.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Angela
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
20 december 2014, 01:46:11
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