Trump's Tax Plan

[Benton]

(09-29-2017, 01:26 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Why we include any American who pays zero federal tax into the average? It makes no sense, I am talking about the average of Americans who actually pay all of the taxes.

(09-29-2017, 01:30 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: It could be, and this is just spitballing here, that when you are calculating the average tax liability of the combined taxes in the country you have to include them, because there is no person that pays zero taxes.

More or less.

At some point, that person has some liability, whether it's paid through their own resources or by money they receive from someone else. If you survive completely off public assistance, you're still paying taxes. If you're able to defer taxes through a loss of profit, you still have some liability. Even if you live in a tent in the middle of nowhere, you've got some kind of tax liability.