Believe it or not, my friends, figures show that 151.7 Million of your fellow Americans, or 49.5% of the U.S. population, paid no federal income tax in 2009. That information comes to us courtesy of figures recently compiled by the Heritage Foundation. How's that make those of you who make up the other 50.5 percent feel? You think that's sounds fair? Do you think that it's perfectly fine that these parasites continue to be a drain on the resources of our society as they continue to get a free ride on our backs? And yet we continue to hear from Barry "Almighty", our "Dear Beloved Leader", over and over and over again about how it is that EVERYBODY, needs to be paying their fair share. WTF, over? To my way of thinking every single American earning an income, no matter what the amount might be of that income, should be REQUIRED to pay a federal income tax. Either we all pay something, or none of us pay anything! Now that's fair. So until Barry is of the same opinion he can take his idiotic fair share rhetoric and shove it where the sun don't shine. Because frankly, I'm sick of hearing it!
So anyway, the numbers that are now available show that in 2009 just 50.5 percent of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government, which, by the way, is the lowest proportion in at least half a century. And the number of people outside the tax system could have climbed even higher since, as the economic downturn has continued to bite and unemployment has remained high. I think it very safe to consider it as being pretty much a no-brainer that the decreasing number of taxpayers not only serves to threaten government revenues but could also be a source of resentment from those who believe that the cost of covering these welfare recipients is taking money out of the economy. And you can most definitely put me in that crowd. I love being forced to cough up more and more of my hard earned money so that Barry can turn right around and divvy it out to those who will either end up spending it on drugs, booze or hookers. Or to those who insist upon having children courtesy of multiple "fathers", children that they have no way of actually supporting.
It was as recently as 1984, or back in the middle of the Reagan era, which is not really all that long ago, historically speaking, that we had 85 percent of Americans paying federal income tax, meaning just 34.8 Million people were not. So in just a mere 28 years that number has now ballooned by roughly a factor of four. That's pure insanity! Granted, the 49.5 figure does include children, retired folks and others who do not participate in the labor force. Nonetheless, the numbers do largely reflect the sudden jump in the unemployment rate after the 2008, Democrat manufactured, financial crisis and subsequent recession that followed. Unemployment rose from around five percent at the beginning of 2008 to a high of 10 percent in October 2009, and that was after Barry's much ballyhooed "stimulus" package which, as we all know, pretty much proved to be nothing more than a complete bust. That, you may recall, or maybe would rather forget, was supposed to prevent unemployment from going over 8 percent. All it ended up doing was to bankroll every cockamamie Democrat pet project imaginable.
Another rather telling finding by the Heritage Foundation shows that 21.8 per cent of U.S. citizens now receive some form of financial assistance from the federal government. This means that 67.3 Million people, and that's a record high by the way, are now 'dependent on the federal government', and, of course, that excludes government employees who rely on the public sector, that is the 50.5 percent of us who pay income tax, for their salaries. Now when you take the fact that we now have fewer taxpayers and combine it with the fact the we also now have higher welfare payments, we come up with a doomsday scenario that puts intense pressure on the public purse and where our national deficit now running at $1.3 Trillion per year. The Heritage Foundation argues that the reduction in the number of taxpayers will create an electorate dominated by non-taxpayers, who will always support higher taxes and spending because their own money is not at stake. And who will always, most assuredly, vote for those, the Democrats, who allow them to continue to pay zero income tax.
So I ask you again, what is the least bit "fair" about any of this? Not only do these parasites get away with paying no income tax but a good many of them are also eligible for things like food stamps, rent subsidies and even free cell phones. So it's a double whammy for we in the 50.5 percent. And what really ticks me off is that most of these noncontributing members of our society get "back" astronomical amounts of money in the form of IRS income tax "refunds". Now just how in the Hell is someone entitled to get a refund when they've paid absolutely nothing in taxes in the first place? But while some folks may prefer to call it a refund, what it is is actually just another form of welfare. Ya know, at some point soon we're going to be needing someone to finally stand up and say this madness simply cannot be allowed to continue. I know, I know, it's all wishful thinking on my part that someone would actually possess the political courage and intestinal fortitude to do just that. But something is going to have to be done here because the alternative of doing nothing is not very pretty. Actually, it's pretty damn dire.
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