Lowest quintiles pays 16% at all levels and 9% to feds. This does not include the cost of inflation or the cost of crowding out borrowers. Then of course the government spends money in ways that hurt the poor, e.g., recruiting them to die in foreign wars or to disenfrachise them.
The reason he can't appeal to some voters is because he does not care about them or their interests. They know he only wants to shift the burden of government in ways that benefit wealthy white men.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Dec...d-the-47-percent-Who-doesn-t-pay-income-taxes
One last note: paying no income tax is not the same thing as paying no federal taxes. Many zero-liability households still ante up for payroll taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security, among other things. According to an analysis from the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, even the lowest quintile of US income earners pay about 9 percent of their income to Uncle Sam in payroll tax.
“When all federal, state, and local taxes are taken into account, the bottom fifth of households pays about 16 percent of their incomes in taxes, on average,” according to the CBPP.
The reason he can't appeal to some voters is because he does not care about them or their interests. They know he only wants to shift the burden of government in ways that benefit wealthy white men.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Dec...d-the-47-percent-Who-doesn-t-pay-income-taxes
One last note: paying no income tax is not the same thing as paying no federal taxes. Many zero-liability households still ante up for payroll taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security, among other things. According to an analysis from the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, even the lowest quintile of US income earners pay about 9 percent of their income to Uncle Sam in payroll tax.
“When all federal, state, and local taxes are taken into account, the bottom fifth of households pays about 16 percent of their incomes in taxes, on average,” according to the CBPP.
