CTJ Report: 98% of Americans get an Obama tax refund for 2009

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Citizens for Tax Justice just released a new fact sheet [.pdf] on your federal tax bill for 2009. It's good news for 98% of working families and individuals.

According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, the vast
majority of Americans do not perceive that they have received a tax cut
from President Obama. Asked if the President “has already raised taxes
this past year,” 53 percent of those polled said that the President has
“kept taxes the same,” and 24 percent think that the President has
“raised taxes.” A mere 12 percent believe that the President has cut
their taxes.

This is an astonishing level of misunderstanding. The truth
is that the major tax cuts enacted in the 2009 economic stimulus bill
actually reduced federal income taxes for tax year 2009 for 98 percent
of all working families and individuals. These tax cuts saved
working families and individuals an average of $1,158 on the tax
returns they will file by April 15. (The median tax cut was
approximately $600.) [emphasis in original]

Yet the media villagers and Beltway bloviators continue to misinform the public into believing any lie the Republican Party feeds them for Tax Day talking points. (See Jon Stewart below and yesterday's post "Republicans resurrect "welfare" charge for Tax Day: More GOP Tax Day Lies.") 

FAUX News takes it one step further. They are already doing wall-to-wall coverage of Sarah Palin (a FAUX News contributor) at the Boston Tea Party. These teabaggers are tools for the plutocratic corporatists. Ungrateful wretches! You can always give your Obama tax refund back to the government.

Bonus: Jon Stewart explains the faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics of the plutocratic corporatists.