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ALmost 50% of Americans pay no tax!

Post by ksl » Mon, 18 Apr 2011 2:28 am

Is that really true? and what about the Tax evaders ?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123958260423012269.html.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110417/ap_ ... no_taxes_3

Looks like things may change, hope they go easy on the double tax payers :-| After all they have gone out of their way to bump their hard earned .

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Post by SG Expat Bat » Fri, 29 Apr 2011 2:32 pm

that explains alot!
haha

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Fri, 29 Apr 2011 4:59 pm

For info purposes only.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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Re: ALmost 50% of Americans pay no tax!

Post by Calmday » Tue, 03 May 2011 2:31 pm

ksl wrote:Is that really true? and what about the Tax evaders ?
Half of Americand dont pay tax because thats the way the tax structure is set up. http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometax ... ysmost.htm

Back when the US demarcates were raising hell about Bush only wanting to give tax breaks to the wealthy it was total BS. You can’t give a tax break to someone who pays absolutely NOTHING. What’s even worse is that 30% (more or less) actually get more back at the end of the year than they paid in. That means they profit from the tax system. You never hear the media talk about this and most on the left are so excited to be getting the free handout that they act like they don’t know any better.
obama and the left are a farce.

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Tue, 03 May 2011 4:25 pm

Don't know what happened to my post above, but half of the message was obliterated! :???:

Do you know that 60% of Singaporean wage earners do not pay any income tax either?
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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