Connect the Dots???
By speakeasy
@speakeasy (4171)
United States
April 11, 2010 3:36pm CST
Let me first say that this may only be coincidental; but, the timing led me to consider that there might be something to this. Let's see what you think.
This morning while browsing the news on the Internet; I came across an article that stated that they beleive that when the Census is complete 50% or more of the people living in the US will be minorities. White/caucasion will make up 50% or less of the total population.
A few hours later, I read an article in our local newspaper that stated that as of this year only 50% of people in the US will be paying any income tax (and some of those will actually be refunded more than they paid last year). These people simply are not making enough to have any income tax due.
These two articles made me wonder if the there is a connection between 50% of the population being minorities and 50% not paying any income taxes.
Please understand I am not saying that minorities are not paying income tax. I know a lot of minorities who are paying income tax and quite a few white/caucasions who are not.
But, the fact is that as the percentage of white/caucasions has declined the number of people who are not making eneough to be required to pay income tax has increased.
Is it possible that the higher percentage of minorities in the population is encouraging business to pay less for jobs than they used to pay? Or, is there some other reason behind this? If this trend continues, will these two percentages continue to grow - more minorities and more people not making enough to require them to pay income tax?
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@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
12 Apr 10
Actually, it doesn't make them the "majority" because no single minority has that many people in it yet. There are still more whites than any other group in the country.
As to the "crash" being the cause for the increase in people not paying taxes, maybe, maybe not. We will have to wait till the 2020 Census to see if this trend holds or not.
@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
11 Apr 10
I do not know, as the majority of people I know who have sub par incomes is white or Caucasian. The trend I see is that next census, the Caucasians will be the biggest minority. People will pay as little as they can get away with, regardless of the ethnicity of the workers, and with a struggling economy, everyone is paying less because everyone is desperate for a job.
@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
12 Apr 10
I have been a poor person all of my life. Even my most recent "good job" was considered underpaid. My knowledge, of course, is based on my community, which is mostly Caucasian. When I am speaking of knowing that people are poor it is because I have been in professions where services are provided on an income basis. They have to be poor to receive any kind of services. We did serve people of various minorities, but not fifty percent. Often the poverty we saw was generational. The families lived this lifestyle and passed it to future generations. Unemployment figures do not show the people who have never filed, because they do not qualify, or do not know how to, and they do not show the people who have given up. The minorities that I tend to come into contact with are from all spectrums. Some of them are quite comfortably well off, some are middle class and others are very poor. There are Hispanic people, black people, mixed race, and oriental people. Some people do a better job of taking care of their own as well. The main thing is that just because the percentages match does not necessarily mean there is a cause and effect.
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
3 Aug 10
Good information about your country, here in india rich are getting richer and poor getting still poorer..it is the middle class person like me who is at loss..
Thanks for sharing.
Welcome always. 
Cheers.
Professor
Cheers.
Professor
