The "53%" refers to the percentage of households who pay federal income tax
> (assuming the figure is correct, and it sounds right). The Right is obsessed
> with the fact that so many people pay zero federal income tax, even though
> most of those people pay lots of other federal, state and local taxes. It
> was dreamed up by Erick Erikson of RedState.com.
>
Presumably you mean the 53% figure (which is new to me). The Wall Street Journal cooked up the infamous "lucky duckies" meme a couple of years before RedState even launched.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_duckies
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