47% of US households pay no federal income tax at all

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

OMG! It's Rogue and Scandal in bed together. :o Were Spooky's awful rumors about us true??????

Are you pregnant? If so you can name him AJ, Barry or Steve. Better yet how bout shay? or maybe adolfo?

[Danno 1,228]

That's easy-peasy. Start with a current Gallup result of demographic breakdown of the Tea Party.

We see that 19% earn < $30K, 26% earn $30-$49K. So 45% earn less than $50,000.

Based upon the original article in this thread, we already saw that a family of 4 could pay no tax on an income of $50,000.

So, how many of the tea partyers earning below $50,000 are families of 4 or more? 10%? 20%? I don't know. Since their demographics seem to follow national patterns, you would think it's at least 20%, probably more.

So we can say with some certainty that the 19% who earn < $30K are pretty much all paying no federal income tax.

And of the 26% earning $30-$49K, at least 20% (.2 * 26% = 5%) have large enough families to pay no tax.

So that's conservatively 19+5 = 24% --- one quarter --- of tea partyers who are screaming about our out of control taxation, yet aren't actually paying any.

Now observe 100 Tea Party pics to determine the ratio of signage which addresses excessive taxation. This number might be consistent with the percentage of people who DO pay a considerable amount to the Fed.

It's been my observation that the Tea party folks are not all there for the same issue.

People who pay little or no fed tax might be there for a host of other reasons.

Not all tea party Peeps are concerned about high taxation today... but the inevitable high taxes which are sure to come.