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- Where Are the 47% of Americans Who Pay No Income Taxes? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/where-are-the-47-of-americans-who-pay-no-taxes/262499/ 10 comments
- 47% Of Americans Don't Pay Income Tax, 45% Think The Tax System Is Just Fine http://www.businessinsider.com/coincidence-47-of-americans-dont-pay-income-tax-45-think-tax-is-just-fine-2010-4#ixzz0l6gpz23M 3 comments
- Where Are the 47% of Americans Who Pay No Income Taxes? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/where-are-the-47-of-americans-who-pay-no-income-taxes/262499/ 24 comments politics
- 47% Of American Households Won't Pay ANY Income Tax This Year http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/07/income-tax-47-of-american_n_529059.html 68 comments politics
- With Tax Day approaching you'll hear a lot about the 47% of households who pay no federal income taxes. This has become shorthand for the notion that the wealthy face a much higher tax burden while growing numbers of Americans are effectively on the dole. Neither one of those ideas is true. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/business/economy/14leonhardt.html?sq=leonhardt&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print 17 comments politics
- Mitt's True Feelings..."47% of Americans pay no income tax... I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/romney-faults-those-dependent-on-government/?smid=pl-share 3 comments politics
- Fox's Neil Cavuto made it clear he thinks the rich are getting hosed by the 47% of Americans who pay no income taxes and that what’s really fair is to cut their services so as not to impose upon the Deserving Ones even more. http://www.newshounds.us/cavuto_flaunts_his_elitist_disdain_for_47_of_americans_11152012 19 comments politics
- Some are complaining that 47% of American households pay no income tax. They conveniently forget that the poor and middle class pay a much higher proportion of their income to social security and sales tax than do the rich. http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/pf/taxes/who_pays_taxes/index.htm?cnn=yes 12 comments politics