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For the 2009 tax year...
More than 1,400 millionaires didn't pay federal income taxes.
More than 20,000 who make more than $200,000 paid no federal income taxes.
476,624 people who made between $75,000-$100,000 paid no federal income taxes.
46% of all filers paid no federal income taxes for 2009, however 80% of filers paid some type of federal tax. This means that half or more of those who paid no federal income tax had some sort of income, meaning they predominately represent the working poor.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/surprise-paying-federal-income-tax/story?id=14681815
Other freeloaders include students, members of the military, social security recipients, and the disabled.
I can't wait until soldiers Rmoney is calling freeloaders find out about this and start posting their stories on the tubes.
KT2000
(20,607 posts)has such low wages that some of their employees are on food stamps.
I am sure some of the fired workers from his Bain takeovers had to go on foodstamps.
salin
(48,955 posts)on how to apply for local social services (like food stamps) in an acknowledgement that Walmart's pay was not enough to live on.
So who are the bigger moochers in that scenario? The people who are working hard but earning such low wages that it is hard to pay rent and buy food. Or the people (corporation) that saves on wages of tens of thousands of employees by not paying liveable wages - and pushing those employees to turn to local and state tax bases to cover the difference (between the wage and the cost of living.) I would consider the corporation. Assume that the average employee was eligible and took 2400 a year in services (perhaps rent support and food stamps) - that individual "mooch" got 2400. The employer subsidized each of these employees pay by 2400 - multiplied by tens of thousands. In such a scenario - I would say the gift/entitlement goes to the business whose "savings" (feeding into profits) is tens of millions by getting tax dollars to subsidize wages.
I've been saying this for a while. It's basically government subsidized slavery.