[Always Right]

I've heard this repeated on every Keyes reparations thread, and it's simply not true. If you look at the actual data on zero-tax filing, you'll see that most African-Americans do, in fact, pay income taxes. Also, many of them don't recieve the Earned Income Credit, because the cost of having someone prepare the files is often too high.

The EIC is really not that difficult to get and is well over $1000 for most. The average tax paid by the bottom 50% amounts to less than 4% of their income. Besides looking at zero-tax filers ignores the many people who simple do not file. I don't think I ever filed for taxes when I was working summer jobs in school, but I would have gotten all the taxes I paid back if I did. Even your stats show there is a major discrpency between blacks and whites. Making up 13% of total filers and 17% of zero-tax filers, means they are overrepresented by about 30%.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Uhh, if you don't file you can't have 0% tax, so the IRS figures have to be correct. If you don't file you must have known you wouldn't get anything back, nor have to pay more in. Either that or lazy or stupid.