The Hill News

Tax fairness is the campaign theme for the State of the Union political theater, yet what is being proposed doesn’t seem very fair.
 
According to the Census Bureau, 48.6 percent of all Americans live in a household that receives some sort of taxpayer assistance, and USA Today reports that only 54 percent of the people who file tax returns end up paying any taxes at all.
 
It seems to me that those of us who don’t receive government handouts, and are foolish enough to pay income tax, have been handed a pretty raw deal.
 
Those of us who pay taxes get to work our butts off, take risks, create jobs for others, make sacrifices that take us away from our families and spend 50, 60, 70 or even 100 hours some weeks trying to make our living.

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