Chart of the Day: Half of Americans don’t pay income taxes

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:00pm | posted by Jason Pye

With April 15th slowly creeping up and many Americans and small business owners facing the prospect higher taxes by year’s end — no thanks to President Barack Obama, the Heritage Foundation reminds us that nearly half of the nation doesn’t pay any income taxes at all. It’s a point to remember when Obama and his ilk start complaining about the rich not paying their “fair share”:

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