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Chart of the Week: Nearly Half of All Americans Don’t Pay Income
Taxes
Rob Bluey

This year’s Index of Dependence on Government presented startling
findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the
federal
government for housing, food, income, student aid or other
assistance.
(See last week’s chart.)

Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who
don’t pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the
U.S.
population. Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous
federal benefits.

“One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding
growth
in the non-taxpaying public,” wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and
Patrick Tyrrell. “The percentage of people who do not pay federal
income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone
who does pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent
in 2009.”

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 warned. Coupled with higher spending on government
programs, it is already proving to be a major fiscal challenge.

“This trend should concern everyone who supports America’s
republican form of government,” Beach and Tyrrell wrote. “If the
citizens’ representatives are elected by an increasing percentage
of voters who pay no income tax, how long will it be before these
representatives respond more to demands for yet more entitlements
and subsidies from non-payers than to the pleas of taxpayers to
exercise greater spending prudence?”

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