Hence, this anger needs to be directed to the millions who don???t pay any federal taxes.Reply pgb says January 22, 2012 at 11:14 am I???m no economist but here???s my .02 on the tax topicHaving long term capital gain, short term capital gain, wages and salary, and other types of income taxed at different rates gives the country big ???knobs??? to supposedly incent behavior at the macro level.