New Study Debunks '47 Percent' Claim

No Americans 'Getting A Free-Ride,' New Tax Study Finds

A new study further debunks the widely-held conservative notion that lower-income Americans pay little-to-no taxes while the rich shell out more than their fair share.

"We've found that no one group is getting a free-ride,” write the authors of the report from the left-leaning Center for Tax Justice.

CTJ looked at the effect of federal tax increases on the wealthy passed as part of the fiscal cliff dea at the beginning of the year. The increase was roundly decried by Republican leaders and some on the right who viewed the move, pushed by President Barack Obama, as a step toward socialism.

However, while the recent changes put federal income tax rates on a more progressive scale -- tax rates go up as income goes up -- many other taxes Americans are subjected to, like federal payroll taxes and state and local taxes are actually regressive, meaning they take a bigger share of income from the poor and middle class than from the rich, according to CTJ.

The CTJ report’s findings pound yet another nail in the coffin of Mitt Romney's now-infamous remarks that 47 percent of Americans are receiving the government’s benefits without paying their fair share in taxes.

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Why yes, it is "left-leaning"... And RMoney's 47% hyperbole is still garbage...

But you guys keep drinking that Randroid KoolAid :Koolaid: and trying to sell it to the "old, angry white guys" in the next election... That steadily-diminishing demographic worked so well for you last time.... (And aren't we all glad that Priebus and the RNC spent $10-million on a study that told them they need to change the pizza-box, but the moldy contents are still okay..)

But Mitt was talking about just income taxes, so your lefty source is creating its own reality. Lets make everyone have a stake, replace income taxes with VAT.
Like illegal immigrants pay taxes too. Of course, they pay taxes, just not most of them.

Yeah, that's right... I guess that's why Mitt's "47%" speech worked so well for him...

Yep, let's KEEP IT UP!! You 'baggers keep telling the 47% how useless they are... (all the disabled veterans, active-duty military, elderly, disabled, retirees, low-income people who work 2-3 jobs but still don't cross the threshold...) It MUST be the fault of all of those "illegal aliens"....