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In response to "Thinking out loud: I wonder how many of the 47% of nonpayers realize they are nonpayers." by ty97

I think that graphic makes perfect sense (reasoning inside)

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Sep 17 '12, 17:52

If you're an income earner in one of the red states, and you see that for every 1 1/2 taxpayers there's someone who doesn't pay income tax, of course you're going to vote for the party that says "you pay too much tax, we're going to lower it".

While in the blue states, there are 2 or three taxpayers for everyone who doesn't pay income tax. So the burden is a lot less.

And places with high income inequality generally have the rich people living separately from the poor people, so for everyone there's less understanding of how the other half lives, and views like "they're just parasites" and "we deserve entitlements" are more common.

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I grabbed Alabama 2008 exit poll stats as a random stab - ty97 Sep 17, 18:00 2
- I suck at source linking -- (link) - ty97 Sep 17, 18:00 1
  - Similar results for Mississippi -- (link) - ty97 Sep 17, 18:04
*if* the votes break on income, perhaps. But I bet they don't. -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 17:53 4
- And keep in mind that's it's federal taxes, so it's all coming from the same pool. - ty97 Sep 17, 17:55 3
  - Here are the exit poll results for the last several Presidential elections. There's a clear link between income level and the party voted for. - Roger More Sep 17, 18:04 1
    - Of course there is an break on income. Hell, I should probably vote for Romney if I'm selfish. - ty97 Sep 17, 18:07
  - In federal taxes. -- nm - the liioulu with umbrella Sep 17, 17:56

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