Last week I blogged that
per the Heritage Foundation 23.1% of Americans are subsidized by the
government. This week I report again from the Heritage Foundation that
49.5% of Americans pay no income tax.
That means 151.7 million
Americans paid nothing in 2009. By comparison, 34.8 million tax filers paid no
taxes in 1984.
The rapid growth of
Americans who don’t pay income taxes is particularly alarming for the fate of the
American form of government, Beach and Tyrrell of Heritage warned. Coupled with
higher spending on government programs, it is already proving to be a major
fiscal challenge.
