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How the Bottom 20% Lives – On Your Taxes

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Despite Democrat claims about the rich not paying their fair share, IRS data shows that the top 20% of earners pay more than 65% of all federal income taxes, while the bottom 20% pay effectively nothing, receiving more in benefits than they are paying in taxes.

According to data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the U.S. Census Bureau, the bottom 20% of U.S. income earners (households in the lowest income quintile) receive a significant portion, often the majority, of their income from government transfers such as Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), housing subsidies, and refundable tax credits like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Roughly 80% of Americans are taxpayers, while the remaining 20% are net tax consumers. To put it in simple terms: taxpayers eat what they kill, while tax consumers live off what others have hunted. They rely on the labor and productivity of the working class to sustain their standard of living.

Although liberals often portray welfare recipients as disabled or unable to work, the reality is that most could work, but choose not to. According to the Congressional Budget Office, 60% of working-age adults in the welfare-dependent population did not work at all during the year, and many were not officially classified as disabled.

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