Southern States Have Highest Percentages of "Nonpayers"

[There Is No Spoon]

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The map on page 1 and the table below show the percentage of tax filers in each state who have no income tax liability as well as the state's rank among the other 50 states. Nine of the ten states with the largest percentage of nonpayers are in the South and Southwest. In Mississippi, 45 percent of federal tax returns remit nothing or receive money with their federal tax returns; that is the highest percentage nationally. Georgia is next at 41 percent, followed by Arkansas at 41 percent, and Alabama, South Carolina, and New Mexico at 40 percent.

All of the top 10 ranking states have among the lowest median family incomes in the country. Of this group, Georgia has the highest median family income at $60,268. Mississippi has the lowest at $46,668.

By contrast, the states with the lowest percentage of nonpayers are not as geographically concentrated. What they tend to have in common is higher incomes. Half of the 10 with the lowest percentage of nonpayers are in the Northeast and half are in the West and Northern Plains states. Alaska has the lowest percentage of nonpayers, 21 percent of filers. Massachusetts has the second lowest at 27 percent, followed by Connecticut (27 percent), New Hampshire (28 percent), and Wyoming (28 percent) to round out the bottom five.

... http://taxfoundation.org/article/states-...-liability

[jaxx]

Those who do the least for the people have the highest rates it looks like. No one can escape poverty without some help. But the damned repubs want to keep people down, they're easier to lead around when they are in want.

[PoliticalTiger]

Very telling. Problem is many of them are too damn dumb and/or prejudiced against Obama to realize Romney just called them a bunch of lazy freeloaders and will still vote for Romney anyway.

[janedrake]

(09-17-2012 11:55 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  Very telling. Problem is many of them are too damn dumb and/or prejudiced against Obama to realize Romney just called them a bunch of lazy freeloaders and will still vote for Romney anyway.

Exactly - conservative voters will never take a pause from Fox News long enough to understand that "those people" are actually who they see in the mirror every day.

[sandnsea]

Those are also the states that get the most in federal spending.