Based on your repetition of talking points, I don't think I'm the one playing a game. If you want to beat up the middle class and the poor, then you are not someone with an opinion I'd value anyway. But, for the record, this 47% number folks like yourself bandy about is misleading as hell. The people pounding it in your head know it; I just can't figure out if the far-right masses knows it. I don't think they do, actually. It's complicated.
If only 47% of Americans are paying taxes, then incomes are going down. This trend has been occurring since the introduction of Reaganomics, but you refuse to look at it for what it is: Failed policy, implemented by conservatives, which have systematically destroyed labor and the middle class. As statisticians will tell you, the median is widely accepted as a more accurate way of representing data than the mean, so the median American income, given the same qualifiers, is roughly $33,000 each year, according to the Census. That falls under cutoff for income tax, doesn't it? So are you saying most of us are bums because we don't make at least $40k and pay income tax?
See, for most of us, wages are dropping while the top 2% are increasing earnings exponentially. Big business doesn't create jobs. They destroy jobs. Startups and new business are what create jobs. But they can't get money from big banks while the big boys can. Yet conservatives won't let us do anything about this for fear, apparently, that Obama appears to get a "victory." Utter silliness.
Second, when it comes to payroll, property, and sales tax - among a zillion other little things like sin taxes - nobody contributes more to the treasury than the middle class and working poor. That is no secret. There is no money in the treasury because the middle class is not spending. That should tell you something, no?