Who are the 47 percent? 5 jobs held by people who pay no income tax.

In a secret video, Mitt Romney said 47 percent of Americans don't pay federal income taxes – and he was right. Half of that 47 percent don’t owe anything because they can claim deductions. But the other half are workers who hold jobs that don't pay enough for them to owe income taxes to Uncle Sam (though federal payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security get deducted from their paychecks), according to Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax ... Full Story »

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