The Dependent States Of America

By Bob Parks —— Bio and Archives April 17, 2012

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While some of us want to help our fellow citizens who may be in need, the problem is instead of saying “Thank you”, they’ll demand more, or else.

According to statistics compiled from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Tax Foundation, those people making above $50,000 had an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, and carried 93.3 percent of the total tax burden. But Tax Foundation data also shows that people who didn’t pay any income tax received $105 billion in refundable tax credits from the IRS.

And what do socialists tend to do with people they can no longer support…?