Wth the exception of children, all those you listed are required to file tax returns but either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits that they didn't have to pay federal income tax. So the fact remains that nearly 50 percent of Americans do not pay federal income tax.
I bet ya 50% of the country doesn't pay a dime in cigarette taxes either!
HOW DARE THEY! HOW UNFAIR!
Surely you're not comparing cigarette tax to federal income tax.
why not? it goes to pay THE BILL? Why should people be singled out like that? they pay cigarette taxes to pay for the health care of the children of others? At least with the gas tax, the people paying it are getting something in return....roads to drive on...
TAXES ARE TAXES....to single out people who do not pay one small portion of the taxes we collect in this Nation, while not recognizing that they pay a hell of alot in taxes otherwise, is unjust....and class warfare.
you, (the general 'you'...those that always play pawn for the wealthy) happily take/steal the poor worker's social security taxes to pay for what income taxes should be paying....yet do not give recognition to this...
yet you, (the general you) only tax the wealthiest up to 100 grand of their millions earned with SS taxes while taxing the poorest among us on every dime they earn....
then you got excise taxes, cigarette taxes, liquor taxes, social security taxes, property taxes, corporaste taxes of which we all pay in the product's retail price, sales taxes, state income taxes, fees for every kind of licensing you can imagine, State lotteries, duties, estate taxes, medicare taxes, unemployment taxes-fees, etc etc etc....
to single out ONE TAX out of the MANY taxes that we all pay to support our government is fotter....imo.