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Though he’s since called them “inelegant”, former governor and current presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s (R-MA) comments about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income taxes have generated a lot of buzz about who those people actually are.
Here’s a look.

[Data for this chart comes from here, here and here.
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