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One In 189 High Income Americans Pays No Federal Income Taxes | Republicans love to rail against those Americans who don’t pay any federal income tax due to the fact that they make too little money to even qualify for the lowest tax bracket. However, according to the latest data from the Internal Revenue Service, many Americans at the top of the income scale are also avoiding having any federal income tax bill. In fact, one in 189 Americans with an annual income of more than $200,000 had no federal income tax liability in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available.
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