51% pays no Income tax and another percent gets more money out with earned income credit.
It IS a problem that over 50% of the country doesn't pay any income tax.
Stating that somehow makes him "Obama lite"?!?
Some asshat liberal professor from Syracuse writes a hit piece on Perry and you just gobble it up.
>>We’re dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don’t even pay any income tax<<
Perry just wants everyone to pay their fair share. The statement does not say what the headline says it states.
But, if some people want to buy the MSM spin out of the box, well, who am I to disabuse them?
Yo Abu Ricardo,It is not your Money so back off and YOU spend LESS!
Have tinfoil anti-Bilderberger hat?
Understand that the rich pay the most taxes? Understand that we ALREADY have forced charity? No?
Think ALL but the abject poor should have some skin in the game?
Think we’re going to keep all kinds of great jobs here when other countries will let you pollute and pay just enough wages to prevent workers from having to sleep in the actual sewer?
The tank of BS is running real empty. If you can’t find a reason to bash Perry, just make up crap when he states a fact.
The transparency of this attack is way too clear.
What’s wrong with what Perry said ? Half the country pays no income tax, this is repeated by conservatives all over the place.
Perry’s history (action) as Governor suggests otherwise.
Sorry, but you seem to be mistaken. I guess it depends upon what you call Middle America. Since 50% of Americans pay no income taxes at all I guess you are talking about the other top half of America. If that is true and that is what Perry is really saying, then you are right... Middle America is paying enough - it is the lower half of all Americans that who pay nothing that is the problem. How can you have an investment in the American economy when you have nothing to lose, only to gain.
Actually, the tax problems are many and diverse. All of the special interest deductions need to be removed - flat tax is the ideal. That would mean that every American would have to invest in the American dream, taxed by income - no deductions.
It is way past time that all of the tax deductions requested by lobbyists be removed.
Middle Americans?? What does Forbes want 20% to pay for all the wasteful government spending? They use the same terms as Democrats ‘payroll taxes’. No, those are ‘entitlement taxes’ and right now they are paying little FICA but still entitled to SS.
Back in the 1990s I used to get Forbes delivered, but it was different then,
Maybe those ‘middle Americans’ who pay no income taxes should demand less spending...,just a thought
Hey now, you just wait for the ‘purist’ patrol to show up and explain away why we are NOT taxed enough. See while the holy compassionate among US demand cheap labor and bodies to fill their church pews, they have NO problem taxing US to fund the education and health care of their cheap labors. Liberals know full well that the GOP will raise taxes before they will actually cut any spending.
This article should be put on a wall with the label below it- A Classic Example of Piss Poor, Biased Reporting.
Oh, and you are terribly wrong about Perry! You seem to be one of those surface (read media) thinkers that refuse to think for themselves.
That's not remotely what he said.
Who needs MSNBC when we have garbage like this right here on FR? Sheesh.
I’ll take Perry over Obama any minute of the day.
Why do you think they call him Rickey the RINO?
Oh right, the people who pay no income tax are the middle class. I don’t think so.
You can twist these statements anyway you like, but only a fool would listen.
Orangeman overdose!