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The Daily Signal
Almost Half of
US Residents Pay No Federal Income Tax
Patrick Tyrrell
February 17, 2016
According to data published by the IRS and the U.S. Census Bureau, 44.2
percent of U.S. residents paid no federal income tax in 2013 (the most
recent year for which data is available).
No doubt many of the non-payers would willingly pay income tax in
exchange for the chance to work in a more dynamic economy that
generated more and better jobs. But our labor market has been hobbled
by government regulations, cronyism, government power grabs, a tax code
nobody understands, and federal waste.
In 1962, the percentage of people who did not pay federal income taxes
themselves and who were not claimed as dependents by someone who paid
federal income taxes stood at 24.0 percent; it fell to 12.6 percent by
1969 before beginning a ragged and ultimately steady increase.
By 2000, the percentage was 34.1 percent; by 2009, it was 49.6 percent.
The number dropped to 44.7 percent in 2011, and it has hovered around
44 percent ever since.
An astounding 33.67 percent of tax returns are filed only to claim
benefits while not paying any income tax. That is up from 18.64 percent
in 1990.
An astounding 33.67 percent of tax returns are filed only to claim
benefits while not paying any income tax.
As President Ronald Reagan said on Jan, 20, 1981, in his inaugural
address, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is
the problem.”
The federal government stands in the way of success for too many
people. Establishing a limited federal government is as critical now as
when Reagan said those words.
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