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Originally Posted by nekkerbee 
It's not just a matter of a significant plurality of households making less than $50k per year (or whatever the stat is). My wife and I made $140k in 2009. We have no kids. Yet we're getting $3k back from the Fed. We haven't paid Federal Income Tax in years. We also have a very good accountant.
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Wait... when you say "you haven't paid" you don't mean that you have been able to bring your taxable income down to 0$ do you? Do you just mean that you never have to pay MORE than what is already deducted from your paychecks (i.e., amount that you've already paid which is reported on your W-2s)? And if that is what you are saying, that is semi-meaningless, as we have no idea what the government has already collected. How much you are able to bring you taxable income down would be much more interesting.
And if you do mean that you actually bring your taxable income from $140K to 0... what crazy shit are you doing to pull that off?
We just take the standard deductions. I look at the list of things you can deduct on a 1040, and can usually only make it 1/2 to 2/3 of the way there, then just file a 1040A with the standard deductions.