For you crazy procrastinators, please remember that today is tax day! That means even if you paid your taxes last year, you have to pay them again, do to one of the many complicated rules in the tax code.
Of course there’s much grumbling that according to a year-old survey, 47% of Americans pay no taxes at all, in part because of loop-holes, but mostly because they are SUPER POOR (or really old). Must be pretty sweet to make so little income that you don’t owe Uncle Sam anything. Obviously, this has people upset because people who don’t pay taxes, to quote Scott A. Hodge (professional idiot), have “no skin in the game” and that “to them, government seems free and politicians can easily convince them to support more and more spending because someone else is going to pay the tab.”
This is so true. First, many people who avoid paying taxes literally have no skin. Instead, they have a tax-resistant leathery armor that makes them extremely difficult to set on fire. Second, he’s right about these non tax-payers being easily manipulated. Just look at this motley group of mostly non tax-payers and their sense of entitlement toward government programs. Obviously they don’t care if government spending keeps increasing, since it directly benefits them! Right?
There’s an even darker side to this avoiding income taxes that Hodge fails to explore. Namely, that many of these same people avoid paying very much in SALES TAXES TOO, largely by not buying things because they’re too poor to afford them! Must be nice.
Wake up America!