Almost 50% of Households Pay ZERO Federal Income Tax! 

Only property owners should be able to vote. People with no skin in the game shouldn't have a say.

Imagine what would happen if everyone had to pay taxes like a 1099 contractor and didnt just see the money magically extracted from them

@@pedlpower You think people who do not own property are not in the game? You actually think this?

That's no representation without taxation. Sounds good to me!!

@@pedlpower Um, no. Net Taxes is better. In some markets is make more financial sense to rent... but if you pay your share on everything... What about a person owning a postage stamp size property but draining the system with every 'program' under the sun??

That would be nice. The Constitution limits the Federal government to provide only a few basic services ( Article 1 section 8): the military, post office, roads, courts and jails. In total the spending for mandated services is about $ 800 Billion per year. Feds spend $4.7 Trillion now. All that money is taken from we the people and some is borrowed from people that aren't even born yet. Government does nothing well except waste money.

Theres a simple solution to clean up the fraud...eliminate taxes Problem solved lol

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The Government is the abuse and fraud!!

federal government has never been audited stealing Billions each month.

Yes especially when it's for the military industrial complex.

@@panpluto13 Your a genius! If that problem was fixed America would be out of debt and everyone would be at least middle class ☺

@@dr.martinlroberts1908 dont worry lil donnie has a Raytheon hack in his ear and has him agreeing to using landmines again. You know, the device that maims innocent civilians and has been banned by over 140 countries. God is love, right davey ramsey? Just think of all of the money people will save because they only have to buy one shoe.

More of this ^

yup, halfway to a collapsed society and only speeding up.

yes. that is right. they should pay at least 500 dollars and have some skin in the game

:-(

@@DeuPKay You can choose to pay more in taxes if you would like. Since you believe paying more taxes is important.

EITC. Another form of welfare. This is why some illegals file taxes with a tax id number.

Totally agree. Some people even feel proud of that.

Even crazier that these people were getting some sort of financial assistance all year.

Israel Peralta that’s not true my mom has a tax Id number and she gets back everything they deduct from her job plus gets payed for two kids

@@saxonsoldier67 and ... Who's that tax ID number.... ?

Michael Jay - Value Investing That ‘tax cut’ is a credit card bill with interest for you in the future. Nothing is free. These tax cuts were not coupled with spending cuts thus either thru inflation or enormous tax hikes.. you will pay for your tax break “with interest”... Those who reaped the benefits (boomers) will be dead with their net worth having been passed on their kids tax-free (thanks trump!)

Lol the average household income is 50 thousand how is that poor i think that like one of the best in the world its more so that democrats like to punish you for making more

@@getbuckets5718 a lot of predatory business practices and marketing aimed toward people with lower education, it's really common for those people to get high interest rates and bad deals despite earning $50,000, getting people more educated in personal finances is never a bad idea

and stop redlining. Alot f places have redlining and creates an imbalance in funds, food acccess, health access, and quality of life

Stephen Floyd, are we really going to ignore consumption(sales) taxes, payroll taxes and property taxes? Federal income tax is not the only type of tax people pay. The folks that don’t pay federal income taxes are those who don’t make much money to begin with. But they pay a significantly higher proportion of their income with those other taxes. I usually agree with Dave but this is a bit dishonest.

No one should ever pay income taxes.

Yeah nobody should pay any taxes. That way we will ensure that nothing gets done. No clean water, no safe food, no unemployment insurance, no social security, no Medicare, no public schooling, no police, no fire department, etc. Great idea.

@@karlabritfeld7104 did you even read my reply? Everyone should be paying something, however little for some.

@@karlabritfeld7104 because nothing ever got done and we all lived in squalor before taxes.

It's amazing that Americans think stealth bombers and the largest military on the planet are free. It's not a heist, it's what you OWE for what you've BOUGHT.

Read "The Creature from Jekyll Island".

Not to mention a political weapon of the democratic since FDR

uzernam3 want roads and police and school- sorry gotta pay

@@jakemf1 yeah because there weren't any roads or police before 1913...

hmm what about disabled veterans?

Country making extra money off that doesn't mean efficient

Well you’re having a kid so you gotta get that free money or your next taxes and get ready now I was talking about give me $300 a month to people with children a $300 per child

They are the rich lol

C W - Probably not...

@@jamesross1798 not even close. It’s mostly families on the poorer side who receive enough in child tax credits to cover all their income taxes. The rich don’t make up half the country

poor millionaires have to 20 million in taxes on a 100 million dollar income. 600 dollars a month matters way more to a family making 60,000 a year dipshit

It's not just low-income earners, either. It really depends on how much income is even taxable (e.g. some pensions and retirement plans, most military allowances, etc.) I don't agree that the poorest Americans should be taxed, but taxes need to start lower down on the financial ladder and rise a lot more steeply on the upper rungs.

They always say pay your fair share. Wouldn’t fair be a flat percentage across the board?

10% 😂 that would be nice

@@davidhochstetler4068 yup. You make 10k, you pay 1k. You make 1 mil, you pay 100k. Taxes done in 5 seconds. Watch out HR Block and Turbotax.

A L or another percentage. Idc as long as it reasonable and fair. Get rid of all the tax credits and just leave people more money in their paycheck instead of offering it back at tax season

Yes stop with credits for education and kids. If you have money then give to charity, if not don’t give

Y? They over with held that’s all ..it’s on them if they want to adjust that

Huh?

That’s extremely vague and there’s no way I can agree with you without more info.

@@uscg1381 worry about your taxes. not someone else's

kmp101 Uh...as an American, I worry about other people’s taxes because it affects me. If you don’t have something to contribute, shut your mouth.

@@uscg1381 How much in taxes do you pay? This guy pays 48k dollars a year to taxes. 48k of hard earned money that he will never see again. What more context do you need?

Malik Jones Your question is irrelevant.

B uppy Correct. Double taxation. Ssme also can be said for everything else. Housing, gas, utilities, etc, are all taxed after federal income and state taxes. So, we pay the taxes, and get taxed again when we spend the money left over after paying taxes. It's cancerous. Oh..that S.S. contribution was spent on another gov't program decades ago.

TheGeorgiaGent Yes. I get ticked off when I hear someone saying that there isn't enough money in Social Security to keep it going and the payee is the one that has to pay further by postponing retirement, etc. The source of the problem is the politicians' greedy raids on the program that wasn't supposed to be touched by them when the program was enacted. One of the purveyors of this notion has since desisted but not without causing harm...

Quote: "If they have IRAs, for example, that contribute significantly to their income, they pay taxes on that." 100% factually incorrect statement. A Roth IRA is not subject to income taxes. One could argue that the retiree already paid taxes on the earnings previously, but again, that is a completely irrelevant argument if a person only makes a few thousand annually, and doesn't have to pay income taxes on that small/minor income. I personally know people who have done this for decades.

It's not a refund, it is the Earned Income Credit, a govt scam concocted by Milton Friedman to subsidize low income workers so corporations won't have to pay them a living wage

Exactly, Rich and immigrants would pay, would be perfect.

1 out of every 10 workers is an illegal here in the USA. Labor is a commodity. The more workers, the less pay per hour. Switzerland has no illegal workers and the effective minimum wage is $33 per hour. Workers should be paid better. Eliminate the illegal worker and you'll have higher effective wages. Both major political parties have helped create our mess.

@@daotheeternalnamelessbeyon8778 RON PAUL should of been president the big nose stole it from him.

You sir have no clue about taxes. By paying cash you put the liability on the receiver of the cash SMFH. So the government sees all of it, if not its tax evasion which is illegal. Now tax avoidance is perfectly legal. I pay 0 state and federal because I know how to read.

@@222222e Lol. All I know Sherlock is that when I paid several thousand dollars to a contractor who did some work on my house I paid him in crisp new $100 bills. He winked and put the money in his pocket LOL!

@@Corkfish1 I know a farmer (others too, of course) who has, at times, sold a bale of hay or two, maybe a half a (beef) steer, and "Uncle" somehow got what he GIVES. The SHAFT... "Turnabout is fair play," or something like that! lol

But the moocher route is too unstable, and having to put up with other people's annoying, petty rules...don't put your feet on my coffee-table, don't use my laundry products, don't drive my car.

I don't want anyone to pay tax, don't care if you make $1 million a year, $15,000 or $200,000.

@@mrfred1000 well you can always go live in Somalia…

A better idea would be to adjust your withholding so you're keeping more of your income in your paycheck and not giving the government an interest free loan for the year. Use that money to pay down debt. Your goal should be to get no refund at all while not owing at the end of the year.

@@MCgrease08 Kinda hard but agreed. I do this. If I can owe zero or just $100 I would. If I can get a small refund like $100 I would too. Ideally I wish I could pay them exactly what they want every year but they purposely make it ambiguous and don't educate people on it. We go through "education" by force of government also because if you don't homeschool it's called "educational neglect" yet the very same government never "Educates" you on Trade schooling or trades, small business, credit, debt, Taxes, Banking, Economics, stocks, personal finance, Owning a home, other investments. morality and Ethics. Even in college you really don't learn these things practically, just theories and career applications of the study. These are life basics and principles to become successful yet we are learning beyond basic math that 99% of the future work force will not use, beyond basic science, English and history that no one uses and we get completely useless classes like "Self Esteem", "Dance", "Gym" and lunch breaks. Why not focus on life essentials and Ethics, behavior and practical studies for 4-5hrs a day and send the kids home. It doesn't make any sense and no one Is in an uproar about it.

Jebusankel depends on where you live you pay tolls

Jebusankel And auto tags

Watch the video on RU-vid (last week tonight infrastructure)

Thats fake news. All taxes go into the same account. All expenses are paid for from said account. There is no "envelope system" in Congress. Its a laugh when people say "this specific tax pays for this specific thing". Best example? Your Social Security is already spent.

And a driver is someone who is being payed to drive.

Interesting.. but , I guess depends on how old u r..

@@desco7628 I think I’d rather take home 650k instead of 50k regardless of my age.

That has been my idea for 25 years. This would make it so simple. It would also tax illegally earned money such as drugs, prostitution, etc. Tax spending, not earning.

The median household income in the US is about $59,000.

Exactly

AnAnnoyedScientist Half of 59,000 is roughly $30,000 per person as in 70% of working households both the man and the woman work.

He's more upset about the people who don't pay taxes complaining than those who do, aren't paying enough. Did you watch the video?

*Half of 59,000 is roughly $30,000 per person as in 70% of working households both the man and the woman work.* Yes that's the average between spouses. However, it's rare that both make the same amount. It's usually one spouse makes a larger income. Especially if they are in the middle of having children. Also based on the number I could find from the BLS it was closer to 60%.

Ironic coming from a multi-millionaire. Tell them to stop whining. Be grateful you're making millions a year. I'd rather have your income AND tax bill than not.

TheHvk sorry, but that’s idiotic

TheHvk they aren’t lucky to make millions they’ve worked for it.

@David Horowitz It's the principle.

@@colinkean1085 not necessarily harder. The American workers productivity has skyrocketed and wages havent. There is no proven constsnt correlation between work and earnings. I know of a child who began receiving PAY from his father around the age of 3. Between that and the properties he was given had he actually invested simply he would actually be a billionaire who could easily show his tax records.

There is an obvious correlation. You need to work even more hours so that she can get a raise.

Ex wife?? Hmmph, why is that? Could be, another cheapskate, telling on himself.

@@suebotchie4167 I know the gynocentric liberal feminist society lies to you, but women do cheat on men, and the Captain-Save-Ho judges continue to still give the cheating wife everything in the divorce, so yes, she cheated, and I payed, but that is what you women want, right?....you are entitled if you are born with a vagina.

Yes.

Obviously

No. Refunds are generally the IRS’ reimbursement for overpayment in w2 income during the year

I think you’re confusing tax refund with tax credit. Unlike tax refunds, tax credits can exceed the amount the taxpayer ever paid in payroll deductions.

@@saxonsoldier67 no - I pay many thousands of $$$ every year, and occasionally get a couple hundred $$$ back as a refund.

Not only that... But those scandanavian countries tax EVERYONE. So the single mom of two kids working at Burger King for $20k a year, who pays $1200 in taxes and gets back $4000... Is going to have to shell out 40% just like everyone else. That's $8k a year... And no refund. Ohhhh the riots which will commence, should we go that route. Funny how Democrat politicians who sell that dream to these dipshits conveinently leave that part out.

This would never be revenue-neutral unless the rate was so high, nobody would vote for any candidate who would propose such an outrageous rate.

Flat taxes are still functionally regressive, if what you're trying to do is please champagne socialists and potheads that will accomplish nothing.

Bingo

Fair Tax Act! Replace the income tax.

I would too.

Jenny&Brett the government wouldn't receive enough in donations. Taxes are a somewhat necessary and unavoidable evil.

Exactly!!!! Don't get why it's SO hard for people to understand...​

Agreed, if the vast majority of money the government spends was paid with donations as you suggest, then the 3 biggest government programs could be dramtically cut - 1) our military 2) Social Security, 3) Medicare. Social programs would be cut too, although all social programs combined are a small percentage of the big 3. We could also cut scientific research - honestly, how many taxpayers would be eager come April 15 to donate to scientific research when the payoff of costly research is too difficult to explain to the typical non-scientist.

Jenny&Brett So are you going 2 Somali no centralized government, no road, no public schools, no police, no fire department, no weapon control, etc... a Libetrian Utopia.

The fact that 50% of Americans don't pay income taxes is just a sign of how fragile the US economy is at the moment. The reason why so many Americans don't pay income taxes is because US government view these people as "low income", The government makes an exception for these people and allows them to pay zero federal income taxes so they can put that extra money back into the economy. The United States would not be where it stands today if it was run off of " Donations " and quite frankly the United States has some of the most lax tax laws out of any developed country in the world. If you have to pay taxes you don't want too, That's cool and all, Just go live in another country, good luck finding one as developed as the United States with less taxes.

Not the same. Those taxes are avoidable. Sales, infrastructure and gas taxes are a better examples.

100% agree.

If you are low income, you likely received federal money, not paid. You really followed along, lol. Unless you consider taking money from others contributing?

@@justincouturier4545 hint she at least pays sales taxes gas taxes if she drives property Taxes even if she rents. Soc ser taxes Medicare taxes other taxes

@@dknowles60 A person that pays Federal income tax pays all of those as well.

Low income is anyone making less than average. If single and childless, then that means paying federal taxes.

Who are they? I assumed they were the lowest earning workers, the elderly, or disabled.

Earned Income Credit. It is a "refundable credit". That is the majority of the reason. Also, there is a child tax credit, of 1k per, which start(ed) to phase out 110k. That has changed in the 2018 tax year though. Now it is 2k per, and the phase out starts much higher.

Yes, roughly half of adults do not pay Federal Income Taxes due primarily to the reasons that Rob Tzu stated. Does not count children but does count those not working.

You're right as far as gas tax, but not all states have sales tax ;)

a small business Owener Gets very little Relief

As a single childless woman, same here...taxes, taxes. Oh well, life goes on.

They are taxed at production and regilulation cost go into products

Gurl EYee depends on the state. Tennessee does tax groceries, Kentucky doesn't just FYI

robo9876 correct. No one ever thinks of the taxation on the supply chain

Correct RedSkaal, this is at the state level not federal

John taxes are taxes. Period.

Correct. I dont know where they get this idea that low wage earners aren't paying taxes. Well what is all that coming out of their check every pay period?

The Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable tax credit, along with the Additional Child Tax Credit. These credits (along with some others) can result in a person having a negative tax liability. In other words, yes, they would receive a refund for every dollar they paid and then some at the end of the year.

The US has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

US budget for 2019: $4.756 Trillion US DOD budget for 2019: $776 Billion % DOD spending: 16% US Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare budget for 2019: $2.841 Trillion % federal assistance programs spending: 60% Cut the defense budget in half and you have done nothing to solve any problem.

Wrong. Wealth is not a pie where there are limited pieces. Everyone can be wealthy.

Boris Temkin Definitely retired, probably adults over 18. But does not include the payroll, state, and local taxes that nearly everyone pays.

We’re retired and we still pay taxes!

South Korea?

Not only would the poor be hurt the most, but more poor people would exist because of the hike in taxes for people currently close to but not at the poverty line.

Belinda Durbin Well said.

It’s due to the poverty in America that nobody talks about. The struggling hard working class people who don’t make enough to support their family and are forced to take less pay in order to get the government assistance. Not everyone on government assistance wants to use it but many are forced because the extra $2 in pay can’t support the family however denies them any help they need. Either take less pay or work multiple jobs to maintain is how they see it.

Shannon Johnson I saw my grandmother be denied so you are not saying nothing new. I have been on both sides myself. I received help for 6 months for my daughter after I divorced. My mother raised me to work hard, earn your way in life she would say. If I had done what many do, take a lower paying job I could have had my daycare paid for instead of the 200 per month and received Medicaid instead of paying my insurance cost for my daughter. So again where is the incentive for the ones who are on assistance to do more for their self. By working for 7.00 per hour at the time instead of the 4.25 minimum wage I got the privilege of paying daycare myself, plus the 75.00 per month in extra health insurance for my daughter, so in the end I earned less than minimum wage, no help with food stamps, daycare, medical or prescriptions, because I earned 15 dollars per month over the limit. And if I dared ask for less hours or declined to work the extra hours forced on us by the company I worked for, which we did not get time and a half because if an obsecure agriculture loophole I would have been fired. So I see both sides, personally I feel all benefits should have to be reported as a source if income because those who have to pay do not receive a break on their taxes like healthcare premiums, but those who receive it for free are basically getting a raise on their annual income due to the stipend they receive in assistance.

Belinda Durbin The current tax "schemes" reward bad decisions, and punish those who not only do well for themselves, but also the people they employ (a job, income, the opportunity to improve, etc). Rarely does gov't work so well.

Shannon Johnson For starters, people working low wage jobs shouldn't have a family if they can't afford it. Working at McD's is hard, but never (in my life) been intended as a career or job on which to raise a family.

Broken systems all around.

They get a refund with the standard deduction so the effective tax rate ends up being below 3% and sometimes negative

Edward Vazquez Black Markets Matter, taxation is theft

Do they really?

Nobody in this country pays 42% in income tax. You then say you pay tax on insurance premiums because they are paid with non tax money. It's very clear that you do not understand how any of this works. You pay tax on it because it's non taxed? Do you not see the blatant contradiction here? The concept of the deductible is not new, and you can pay more to get a lower deductible, but you are probably enrolled in an HSA - which you should take advantage of if you have a high deductible.

Yes, but if you don't volunteer, your life will be destroyed.

Yeah - please tell me what the benefit is? If I don't pay my taxes and I insist that it is a voluntary tax, are you saying that I won't have to go to jail then? Because if I'm still going to go to jail, it doesn't matter if it's voluntary or not semantically. I only care about the actual consequences, and if the consequences are identical to it being mandatory, then for all intents and purposes that are useful, it is mandatory. So all this hogwash bitching and whining about the personal income tax being voluntary is utter nonsense - - EVEN IF you are right.

@@willoughbykrenzteinburg You and Thomas Jensen are both correct in your individual perspectives. It was Irvin (Irwin Schiff ?)who studied the matter intensely and revealed through his writings the scam that was foisted on the American people, the bogus nature of the "income tax" and the illegal enforcement tactics that were and have been employed to collect it. Willoughby, you are correct in your pragmatic assessment that there is no point to die for a lost cause. It's too late, it has been in force for much too long and cannot be undone. The founding fathers bound and chained the government with excise, imposts and duties as legitimate funding to perform certain enumerated duties and only those duties. The government broke out of those binders and grew into a "monster" and that monster is now dependent on every source it has had, plus the deficit spending it has pursued. We are now faced with a world economy that has grown to unsustainable limits, has grown to those limits on credit and is a bubble so large and so fragile that it could burst at any moment. The prospects of such an occurance are truly frightening. The govt. put Schiff in prison and kept him confined until he died, as a dramatic example to anyone who dares to follow!