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RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
18. Did some looking
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 12:36 AM
Sep 2012

I saw you posting the same stuff in a few other threads, and since you are a stickler for facts, I know you loved getting set straight elsewhere in this linked post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1364120

ThoughtCriminal (9,188 posts)
12. Nope. Here's how they calculated it.

And it pains me to link to one their sites, but...

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/19/chart-of-the-week-nearly-half-of-all-americans-dont-pay-income-taxes/

They took the "Percentage of Americans Not Represented on a Tax Return"

Not percentage of adults. Not percentage of workers. Not percentage of Tax filers.

When they say that 151 million Americans paid no taxes, they are including children, the elderly, the disabled. The math doesn't work any other way.


What that is saying, just to be clear as a bell, is that 47% of ALL Americans did not pay income tax. And Mitt has just dissed all 151 million Americans. Even stay at home Moms.

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