Roughly 57% of U.S. households paid no federal income tax in 2021, and 19% of Americans paid neither payroll nor federal income taxes in 2021, according to the Tax Policy Center.
For 2022, the Tax Policy Center estimates that about 47% won’t pay federal income taxes.
The share of American households paying no federal income tax rose to more than 60% in 2020 due in part to massive COVID-19 pandemic job losses.
Before the pandemic, 44% paid no federal income tax.
Tax Policy Center senior fellow Howard Gleckman said in addition to pandemic job losses, a decline in incomes, stimulus checks and tax credits contributed to the large number of households paying no federal income tax.
“Combined, all this substantially reduced the income tax liability of more than a hundred million households and temporarily turned many from payers of small amounts of federal income tax to non-payers,” Gleckman said.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wants to require all American households to pay some federal income tax as part of his Rescue America plan.
“All Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game, even if a small amount. Currently over half of Americans pay no income tax,” Scott said.
Gleckman called Scott’s plan “silly.”
“The reason people don’t pay federal income tax is that they don’t make enough money,” he said.
TPC estimates that the lowest-income households — less than about $27,000 annually — would pay an average of nearly $1,000 more in taxes in 2022, reducing their after-tax incomes by nearly 6%.
TPC said low-income families with children would pay the most under Scott’s plan. His plan would slash their after-tax incomes by more than $5,000, or more than 20%.
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“Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wants to require all American households to pay some federal income tax as part of his Rescue America plan.”
Sen. Rick Scott is a RINO Democrat. Your money belongs to the Democrat Party’s government. The government just lets you keep some of the money you earn.
“All Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game, even if a small amount. Currently over half of Americans pay no income tax,” Scott said.”,,,,AMEN – no RINO here, but traditional American education and precepts on the ability and desire to individually serve self through SELF-governance which enables the nation to Collectively make the American concept of SELF_governmant actually work.
Making people who are successful pay a higher percent of their income is social discrimination. and social manipulation to punish the hard working and successful, by fallible men who have agendas to control via false concepts of Equity versus equality. EVERYONE should have skin in the game. You make 10,000 or 100,000 each year, everyone should pay the same percent so they can understand it is a privilege to be part of the American success of our Democracy and be proud to be a part of that success. Anything other than that is just social division by economic class with parties ruling over Constitution, and special privileges and tax p breaks passed out to establishment people in power that the small guys have to end up paying for.
HE may be a rino, but he IS SPOT THE HELL ON..
Why the hell should 50%+ of society, get to ENJOY EVERYTHING Society has to give, but pays NOT ONE RED CENT IN, for any of that?
DO NOT BE DECEIVED,,, you all paid, and paid big time, every time our so called Big Businesses get their taxes raised, they pass it right on to WE THE PEOPLE who pay through the nose through higher prices,,,,welcome to the world of Biden, Pelosi, AOC hidden taxation via hidden Price Inflation, where it’s like a “Hide the PEA” game shell shuffle and it is WE THE PEOPLE who are getting shell shocked.
Businesses pay no taxes, they either pass them on to the consumer, or if too oppressive, just go out of business,
SALES tax is a LOT different than federal or state INCOME TAX, which is what the article was on about.. IF YOU bothered reading it.
wrong… you really should read it yourself…
You are not correct to say that businesses pay no taxes. Business owners pay plenty of taxes. While it is true that a business must pass on all of its costs (including taxes) in the long run to stay in business, Democrats want to increase the share of taxation to business owners (share holders). Democrats are very clever about taxation so that business owners often must endure taxation without the ability to pass on the costs at least in the short term. Democrats want business owners to pay taxes on unrealized capital gains and bring back double taxation of dividends.
“Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wants to require all American households to pay some federal income tax as part of his Rescue America plan.”
The government doesn’t have a revenue problem, Mr Scott—it has a spending problem. Donald Trump frequently mentioned the vast sums that were coming in—much of it from foreign sources due to tariffs. These insane multi-trillion-dollar spending bills that originate in Congress—the excessive waste of unnecessary government programs—government handouts discouraging people not to work—printing money that we don’t have backing for—those are the problems that you should be addressing
Here with inflation the highest it has been in years—ridiculous gas prices—overall surge in prices of consumer goods across the board—and you come up with this genius idea.
A major part of the reason for a spending problem is that 57% of households do not pay federal income taxes. This part of the population views taxation as a free good, transferring wealth from owners of capital and productive workers to them. This part of the population will always support Democrats because they perceive taxation and spending (for them) as free goods. On sales taxes, although many states have increased the rates, Democrats tread very lightly because they know that sales taxes are not perceived as a free good. Making everyone (or perhaps nearly everyone) pay some amount of income and payroll taxes is a good idea. Tax credits, especially refundable tax credits, have created a major spending problem as a majority of voters perceive spending as a free goo.
HENCE WHY i would SORELY LOVE TO get rid of EVERY tax credit. EVERY deduction. EVERY LOOP HOLE.. Just go to a flat out everyone pays 10%.. PERIOD.
Hey Rick, cut out people being on welfare their whole lives (healthy people) and get rid of all of the big government agencies that work against the American people.
OR as i keep saying. NO VOTE for welfare leeches!
It used to be “No taxation without representation.” Now it’s “No taxation but you still get to vote.” And since it doesn’t cost them anything, why not vote for all the “free” programs the working half pays for?
Hence why for years, i’ve advocated to REMOVE the vote, from those living off welfare.. AS they to me, are in essence, WARDS of the state.
I can remember a time when the idea was floated for a flat tax. Everyone paid something. If your income was $100.00 then you paid $10.00. If the income was $100,000,000.00 then you paid $10,000,000.00. The only exemption was for 1 home mortage write off. But the dummycrats whined and cried that it wasn’t fair and it only benefited the rich. I have yet to figure that out. But dummycrats are themselves wealthy. Just look at the ugly old stupid hag and the stupid senile POS. What dummycrats really want is a tax code that enslaves the poor to stay poor. Then they want all kinds of tax write offs that only benefit the rich but destroy the middle class because most middle class people don’t qualify for the write offs. So when some dummycrat politician says he’ll only tax the rich, what he’s really saying is he’ll destroy the middle class.
That’s WHY they felt it was “unfair”, as EVERYONE would pay into taxes, so their loyal welfare leeches, would have to actually SUPPORT the taxes, that PAY THEM TO LIVE..
“TPC estimates that the lowest-income households — less than about $27,000 annually — would pay an average of nearly $1,000 more in taxes in 2022, reducing their after-tax incomes by nearly 6%.”
BS, until all the built in “entitlements”, i.e. welfare are removed, the low income household still will get a heck of a lot more back in EBT (food stamps), rent subsidy (section 8), medicaid, child tax credits and earned income tax credits. A family of 4 making that $27,000 could get as much as $15,000 to $20,000 in these benefits easily giving them a net income in the mid $40s. Not rich, but certainly not poor.
Hell, you also have to look at other things too.. Free daycare (section 13 iirc), can’t be evicted (while WE HOME OWNERS AND RENTERS can), college stuff…