Why do republicans say the poor don't pay taxes? (paycheck, percentage, single)

[noexcuseforignorance]

Tax preparers can't just invent deductions. Not everyone can dream up a refund.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by CoastalMaine

Nice!!! ..... as long as you can avoid an audit! lol

I have been audited twice.

No change either time.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by noexcuseforignorance

Tax preparers can't just invent deductions. Not everyone can dream up a refund.

But, it is better to use one to get every chance.

I do my own but, I am self employed.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Rlarson21

I wish i WAS self employed. I hate working for someone else. Also, I'm not complaining that I had to pay taxes. I'm just saying that the fact that the bottom fifty percent DON"T pay is a MYTH

The IRS says you are wrong, and I bet they know more than the average bear about who pays what
Nearly 50% Will Pay No Fed Income Tax for 2009 - CBS News

[bobtn]

47 percent of Americans with income pay NO taxes.

[Waianaegirl]

All the illegals are poor, they don't pay taxes, but they get more benefits than I do.How is that right?

[mmmjv]

Originally Posted by pommysmommy

Is it only Republicans? What about all the people who get "refund" checks when they paid no taxes?

It's called a "refund" because that's exactly what it is. A refund of your money that you paid in. That's not free money

[bobtn]

Not totally true. The EITC gang get more back in refunds than they paid in taxes. But that is the Democrats fault, as EITC is their income redistribution scheme.

[mmmjv]

I forget the details, but the refund is nothing more than having paid in too much through the year by money being deducted from your paycheck and at tax time you get back that money which you shouldn't have paid in the first place. That's not free money from the taxpayers as the teabaggers would want you to believe.

In fact if you do get a refund there's a way you can just keep that money instead of giving it to the government and then getting it back later. I think you either put yourself down as a dependent, or don't put yourself down as a dependent. One way you get a nice check every April but the downside is that's nothing more then money you could have been collecting each week and it's like giving the government a free loan. The other way you don't get a nice check each April, or at least not as big as you could have gotten, but you have been getting more in your weekly paycheck

[mmmjv]

Originally Posted by bobtn

47 percent of Americans with income pay NO taxes.

47% of Americans never buy anything?????