Astounding Numbers

The Heritage Foundation estimates that 49.5% Americans pay no taxes, raising a giant red flag to how democracy is fulfilling its parasitic promise.

But as usual, the truth is even worse. If we factor in all the people who draw a government salary, we must add them to the rolls of non-taxpayers as well. Someone is shrieking right about now that government employees pay taxes too! No, you don't. You are paid with tax money, so the taxes you pay back are nothing more than a slight diminution of your take. For example, if you receive $10 in tax money and pay back $1, you remain a tax consumer to the tune of $9.

Government workers at the federal, state, and local levels comprise about 8% of the population, so we have a total of 57.5% of the population living at the expense of the other. The parasite is already larger than the host.