an excellent read from the ACLU
 

Pete Stavrakoglou wrote:
"tony cooper" wrote in message

That "pay zero federal income taxes" is spin.

The bottom 50% of the wage earners loan the government money for
twelve months of the year. If they're earning a wage, withholding is
taken out. They may get back part or all of that money as a refund,
but they don't have use of the money until the refund is received.

Also "spin" is "fair share".

Are you serious? They get all their money back (some even get more than that in
credits) and you're going to say that it's spin when I say they don't pay
federal income taxes? What a ridiculous thing to say.

So banks earn no money by lending money and don't reward
people depositing money by paying some lower amount than what
they lend the money for?

OK, then please send me $1.000 per month, I'll pay you back
$1.200.000 in 100 years. You'll get all your money back that
way, so it's completely fair, right?

-Wolfgang