# Earn less than $50K then pay no Fed income tax?  Really?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earn-less-than-50k-then-pay-no-fed-income-tax-really/537016 "2010-04-22T18:47:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earn-less-than-50k-then-pay-no-fed-income-tax-really/537016/1 "2010-04-22T18:47:07Z")

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Mods please delete

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earn-less-than-50k-then-pay-no-fed-income-tax-really/537016/2 "2010-04-22T18:51:36Z")

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I made less than $50k/yr almost my whole life and I’ve paid plenty of taxes(a solid 28% IIRC). I have no idea what they are talking about.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earn-less-than-50k-then-pay-no-fed-income-tax-really/537016/3 "2010-04-22T19:03:31Z")

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