I understand what you said in your first post. You made multiple statements afterward that mentioned just "taxes" without qualification. Few people read anything beyond the last page of the thread. They see sweeping claims like, ""Something like 50% of all Americans don't pay a dime of taxes," and they accept them at face value (which is exactly what I already explained). That is misleading. You can see other people in this very thread who began parroting the false claim in ignorant bliss.
It may well be you personally had no intent to deceive. There are plenty of dishonest partisans, however, who spread their propaganda by deliberately making distorted claims. When challenged, they too will cop-out with, "You know what I meant." It becomes hard to tell the careless from the dishonest.
The way to avoid being lumped with the propagandists is to choose your words more carefully. It only takes two to change your comments from blatantly dishonest to merely misleading: "federal income" taxes.
Indeed. Many of the poor are, in fact, bottom feeders and they deserve scorn for sitting on their lazy asses draining everything they can get from society. They are a minority, however. Many other "poor" people work their butts off, often with multiple jobs. They likely could have made better decisions in their lives ... but that can be said for all of us.
I wasn't really talking about illegal tax evasion either. I'm thinking more of all the legal evasions and loopholes that have been lobbied into the system. For example, the preferential treatment of capital gains income is a huge give-away that overwhelmingly benefits extremely wealthy investors. It's the single biggest reason their effective tax rates are often lower than the middle class and upper middle class.