Quote from: Biodom on Today at 06:00:24 PM

Quote from: jojo69 on Today at 05:55:39 PM

That's questionable since almost everyone have FICA (or at least Medicare tax) and regular taxes withdrawn from each paycheck, unless you are self employed.
Do we have 51% self employed?
I doubt it.

I imagine it's pretty close. It says "Americans" and over 25% of Americans are under 18. Even if all the kids are working, in Nov 2024 there were 209M working age Americans (15 to 64 years of age) with a total population of 345M

I read some interesting stats a while ago while arguing how all American taxpayers had benefited from the TCJA. The top 50% of all taxpayers paid 97% of all federal individual income taxes. This means the bottom 50% of taxpayers were only paying 3%. I don't think 51% of Americans paying no federal income tax is unrealistic... I mean, I buy it.