More correctly, this should say “47% of Americans pay no FEDERAL income taxes,” but even when used in its correct form (which, in my experience, is less than half the time), it is another meaningless statistic, used by the conservative crowd to whip the base into a parasite-hating frenzy, so …Wait! Don’t stop there!
This report has been out for a while now, but is typical of Republican attacks, in that, even if you accept the numbers it puts forth as true (a thing very much in doubt), those numbers exist by themselves, in a sea of nothing-to-compare-it-to, and when you see the numbers …Wait! Don’t stop there!
Much attention has been paid in the conservative blogasverse to the fact that the R-controlled House of Representatives has sent “lots of jobs bills” to the Senate, and the Librocommiefascist Harry Reid won’t even let them come to the floor to be considered. Thus, they say, it is the Demoroaches/Demorats/Dimtards …Wait! Don’t stop there!
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