Cheaters

            This week’s topic deals with cheaters on taxes. An article titled “Tax cheats: Single, young and male by Blake Ellis. The article can be found on CNNmoney.com. the article discusses the typical tax cheaters, which according to the article is young single males. It includes males under the age of 45 in the young category.

            The article discusses the topic and gives quotes from creditable sources throughout the article. At the beginning of the article it gives some statistics about the cheaters in America. The article has ads on each side of it which deal with refinance rates, oil stock in the US, and mortgage rates. It discusses the things that the cheaters tried to deduct from their taxes. After this it gives more statistics about the cheaters, except this time it is on if they will steal from their children.

Single males under the age of 45 have been found to be the highest percentage of cheaters when it comes to paying taxes. Only 15% of Americans confessed to cheating on their taxes on a survey. 64% of that 15% were males and 35% of those were single and 55% were under the age of 45. Of these males their behavior of cheating on taxes was not the only bad conduct they have. 73% of them work under the table jobs and are most likely to keep the incorrect amount of change given to them by a cashier. Cheaters are most likely to steal money from a child, this includes taking money from a child’s piggy bank.

              This article is important to me because I feel that no one should try to cheat the system. Cheating the system can affect everything in our government. By affecting the government affects all of our lives in the United States.  As a single male under 45 in this country I feel that the “cheaters” are giving males a bad name in the United States. Taxes should not be cheated on because that puts more taxes on the honest people who do their taxes correctly.