The biggest lie commonly employed in this tax question is the lie of omission, and it works this way:

The only tax that gets discussed is income tax...as if that was the only tax there was in life!

Well, it sure as hell isn't. There is tax on bloody well everything except blowing your nose, not just on incomes. You pay sales tax on the stuff you buy and the services you purchase. You pay property tax if you own property. You pay a host of hidden and unnoticed taxes that are built into everthing you ever pay for.

So, guess what? EVERYBODY pays taxes! The guy who is too poor to qualify for paying income tax STILL pays taxes on everything else he buys, and most of those taxes go unseen, built into the price he has to pay. He isn't even aware of most of them.

This is the part that the Right Wing blissfully ignores when they go ballistic over people who "don't pay taxes" getting a tax rebate.

Ha! There is no one out there who doesn't pay taxes. It's inescapable. I bet if all the actual taxes were revealed that we would discover that most of us pay about 40 cents on every dollar we make in taxes every year (and only about half of it is income tax).

People notice the income tax because it's one lump sum. That hurts, and they remember it. They don't notice the bloodletting when it's in little drops getting sucked out on 365 different days a year, meaning every time they pull their wallet out of their pocket.