61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020

Re:61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020 by platz on Thursday August 19, 2021 @10:56AM (#28234626)

Tax is the moral basis on which democracy is predicated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsl6QUlWVc

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Re:61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020 by adolph on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:30AM (#28235117)

Prior to the mid 20th century, a poll tax was implemented in some U.S. state and local jurisdictions and paying it was a requirement before one could exercise one's right to vote. After this right was extended to all races by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, many Southern states enacted poll taxes as a means of excluding African-American voters, most of whom were poor and unable to pay a tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax

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Re:61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020 by clipradiowallet on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:03AM (#28234729)

To be slightly pedantic, the US system of government is a federal republic[1] that includes some democratic concepts. An example of those concepts is the democratic election of representatives at a state and federal level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_Unit...

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Re:61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020 by zionic on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:08AM (#28234801)

That makes perfect sense because taxation is theft and immoral.

It is therefore consistent that the moral basis for our unjust society is itself unjust.

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