{"id":1474,"date":"2005-06-20T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2005-06-20T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T07:01:13","slug":"americans_outsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Americans Outside the Tax System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxfoundation.org\/publications\/show\/542.html\">Patrick Fleenor and Scott A. Hodge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>One of the biggest obstacles facing President Bush\u2019s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform is the fact that America has become divided between a growing class of people who pay no income taxes and a shrinking class of people who are bearing the lion\u2019s share of the burden.<br \/>\nDespite the charges of critics that the tax cuts enacted in 2001, 2003 and 2004 favored the \u201crich,\u201d these cuts actually reduced the tax burden of low- and middle-income taxpayers and shifted the tax burden onto wealthier taxpayers. Tax Foundation economists estimate that for tax year 2004, a record 42.5 million Americans who filed a tax return (one-third of the 131 million returns filed last year) had no tax liability after they took advantage of their credits and deductions. Millions more paid next to nothing.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Fleenor and Scott A. Hodge: One of the biggest obstacles facing President Bush\u2019s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform is the fact that America has become divided between a growing class of people who pay no income taxes and a shrinking class of people who are bearing the lion\u2019s share of the burden. Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}