(Hat Tip: Instapundit)
While you filling out your tax forms this year to determine your refund, think about this: 36% of tax filers will pay no tax. That means their refund will be at least as much as they paid in through withholding. That's 51.6 million filers. And some of them earn as much at $50,000 per year. All that according the the Tax Foundation using IRS numbers:
Nonpaying status used to be a sure sign of poverty or near-poverty, but Congress and the President have changed the tax laws to pull much of the middle class into the growing pool of nonpayers. The income level at which a typical family of four will owe no income taxes has risen rapidly, now topping $51,000.
Two records were set in 2008: highest percentage not paying and highest income not paying.
So the question becomes, with more and more people paying less taxes, who's going to fund government? That would be those of us who will be paying more and more taxes.
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