Romney has no use for 47% of Americans

He's going to be destroyed by his own words... IN his own words...ON TAPE, SAYING his own words...showing his utter contempt for anyone who is not in his elite financial status--and everybody who DOESN'T have offshore bank accounts in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands; and who needs two hands to count the number of houses they own; who worries about car-elevators; who worries about whether or not they are going to get their "business deduction" for the string of dressage horses they own... And then has the BALLS to use the words "class-warfare" in a sentence?

He's dead meat... You just witnessed the end of the RMoney campaign today....

But it IS nice to finally hear him express what seems to be the only "CORE BELIEF" that I've heard him express since he started...

"I'm not concerned about the very poor...We have a safety net."

It may not be the America you know dog, but it's the America we are becoming with the rise of the Tea Party. Romney has embraced their form of conservatism because he sees that as his only road to the White House. I sincerely hope it becomes his road to defeat.

I love the ignore feature......

To the rest of you I can read....interesting debate.

I love it too... Most of the teabagging knuckle-dragging morons no longer bother me...

Isn't IGNORE a WONDERFUL THING... Would you like to continue congratulating ourselves on the IGNORE feature? Oh, I forgot...I'm dealing with a teabagging knuckle-dragger.

Debates are always fun when you have no opposition. It's as I have always suspected, conservatives just can't handle differences of opinions. I think it makes them cry.

I KNOW it makes them cry when you hang irrefutable facts around their necks... There's a "whirr/click", and they reset, and just start regurgitating GOTP talking-points.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

I know quite a few people who fit in that demographic who intend to vote for Romney. Go figure. Guess it's not an entitlement if they need it.

He is also describing troops deployed in Afghanistan and other combat zones, who get government health care, housing, food and don't pay federal income taxes. I don't believe they think of themselves as victims. Of course he already on record as not thinking the military troops are important.

Great breakdown on the "47%" of Americans that Romney does not care for:
— 53.6 percent of households pay the federal income tax. Presumably Romney is okay with these folks.
— 28.3 percent of households pay no federal income tax, but they do pay the payroll tax. That means they don’t need Mitt Romney to convince them to “take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” They already have jobs.
Most of the households in this group don’t pay any federal income tax because they qualify for enough deductions that their income tax liability has shrunk to zero. See this Tax Policy Center report for more, which gives an example of “a couple with two children earning less than $26,400. They get an $11,600 standard deduction and four exemptions of $3,700, and that takes their liability to zero.” Indeed, it’s worth noting that many of these deductions and credits were part of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, which Romney wants to extend.
— 10.3 percent of households pay no federal income tax because they’re retired and elderly. Many retirees aren’t taxed on their Social Security benefits, which they earned by paying into the system over many years. If Mitt Romney secretly thinks that these households are all irresponsible freeloaders, he has a weird way of showing it, as he keeps insisting that he doesn’t want to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits for those over the age of 65.
— That leaves 6.9 percent of households which are non-elderly and have incomes less than $20,000 per year and aren’t paying the payroll tax. These poorer households pay neither income taxes nor payroll taxes. Perhaps Romney thinks that they should all pay more in federal taxes. It’s hard to say. But this is also a much smaller fraction of Americans.
Meanwhile, just as a reminder, the vast majority of Americans still pay state and local taxes — in fact, these taxes tend to be more regressive. When you add up all the different types of taxes, most income groups in the United States tend to pay an amount that’s roughly commensurate with their share of the national income.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezr ... se-people/


Here is a chart showing the share of taxes compared with income groups.

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It's ok Glowzell, you get to vote again in 2012, assuming you bothered to register...