Quoted from BuckStrider

Obamacare IS a new tax that EVERYONE is going to pay for.

Quoted from Box A Rox

YUP.  Some of those 47% are teenagers who made very little money... they pay no tax, just like you or
I would if we made that amount.

Some of those 47% are grandma and grandpa on social security... they make no money so pay no tax..
just like you and I would if retired with no job.

Some of those 47% are out of work...laid off from the Bush Economic Meltdown.  They make no money
and pay no tax because they don't have a job... just like you or I in that circumstance.

The figures for 2009 are particularly anomalous; in that year, temporary tax cuts that the 2009
Recovery Act created — including the “Making Work Pay” tax credit and an exclusion from tax of the
first $2,400 in unemployment benefits — were in effect and removed millions of Americans from the
federal income tax rolls.  Both of these temporary tax measures have since expired.

These 47% figures cover only the federal income tax and ignore the substantial amounts of other
federal taxes — especially the payroll tax — that many of these households pay.  As a result, these
figures greatly overstate the share of households that do not pay federal taxes.  Tax Policy Center
data show that only about 17 percent of households did not pay any federal income tax or payroll tax
in 2009, despite the high unemployment and temporary tax cuts that marked that year.[5]  In 2007,
a more typical year, the figure was 14 percent.  This percentage would be even lower if it reflected
other federal taxes that households pay, including excise taxes on gasoline and other items.

Most of the people who pay neither federal income tax nor payroll taxes are low-income people who
are elderly, unable to work due to a serious disability, or students, most of whom subsequently
become taxpayers

When all federal, state, and local taxes are taken into account, the bottom fifth of households
pays about 16 percent of their incomes in taxes, on average.  The second-poorest fifth pays
about 21 percent

I know, I know... the 47% is too good for a Rabid Right Winger to resist... it's fits the agenda...
even if it doesn't fit the FACTS!