&gt; Currently about 47% of working citizens pay no federal income tax at all.<p>That sounds a lot like the usually cited figure for the share of US <i>households</i> that don&#x27;t pay federal income tax (which tend to have less adults per household, and a lower employment rate among those adults, than households that do pay federal taxes, so its unlikely to be much like the percentage of &quot;working citizens&quot; that don&#x27;t pay federal income taxes.)