Quote Originally Posted by Lainey View Post
This fact bears repeating. Often. So we can finally put this meme about the 47% who don't pay federal income tax in context: they don't pay because They Are Too Poor. Why is that something to be upset and jealous about?
Again it is not that easy, like I said California minimum wage, 40 hours a week, standard deduction, no kids, gets you in a position you CAN'T ESCAPE federal income taxes, not even with the earned income credit (and yet that *IS* poor, I'm definitely going to define living here on minimum wage as poor ok). Those who escape federal income taxes might be poor but claiming all the poor are escaping federal income taxes is just not true. I think people who criticize "people not paying taxes" think it's about poor people, but they are actually criticising deductions, since that is what makes the tax rate zero, just being poor is not going to do it.