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Not the 53% Duh !
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A little under half of them are retired, the next largest group are those who work but make less in a year than the people at Romney's speech paid for the meal and thus end up owing no INCOME tax (they still pay payroll taxes, which make up 40% of U.S. tax receipts... the same percentage as income tax) after applying normal deductions (primarily Reagan's earned income tax credit), the next largest group are the unemployed who are looking for work, and the remaining few percentage are scattered amongst the disabled who cannot work and wealthier people who manage to get their income tax down to zero through various methodologies (e.g. offshore tax shelters).
Basically, ~46% have little or no income, and the remaining ~1% are wealthy tax dodgers.
The 53% are essentially the 'upper lower class' through the 'lower upper class'... people who make enough that they need to pay income tax, but not so much that they can avoid paying income tax.
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Students, who often work part time, but don't make a lot of money.
And my favorite group: Military personnel serving in combat zones. Those moochers don't have to pay income taxes! </snark>
But at least Romney mentioned them in a speech!
28% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
74% of all people believe this to be true.
People on Social Security, or disabled veterans don't pay taxes on the money they receive.
Go find the pay stub of someone working at McDonalds. You will see money withheld by the government on it.
Im fairly sure that the 47% is, like so much else, nothing more than the product of Mitt Romney's fevered imagination.
As youve pointed out above, I dont think there is anyone who doesnt pay taxes. Let me amend my previous statement, It is a product of Mitt Romney's (and anyone else's to whom thinking is hard) fevered imagination. There will never be a time in your life that you wont pay taxes, thejeff. They might not always be direct, but you will pay them nontheless.
One thing to remember is that for many living under the poverty line, they are already paying a reasonable or even high percentage of their income in sales tax alone. If you are poor, you are probably spending the majority of your money, not investing it.
hmm lets see
1. old people
2.people who think there old
3.treehuggers
4.wanna be treehuggers
5.crack heads
6.soon to be crack heads
7.people on welfare
8.people who want to get off welfare
9.people who are thinking about going on welfare
10.people who have kids
11.people that want more kids
12.people that have too many damn kids
13.people that dont have any money
14.people who might have money,somehere
15.people who are thinking about someday making some money
16.that woman sitting next to you on the bus
17.all those people that have no clue
18.all those people that would like to have a clue but have no idea where to start
19.all those people that have clues,but there clues are suppressed by those with better clues
20.students that do well in school
21.students that do poorly in school
22.students that are there just because its someplace to be
23.hitchhikers because they always get a bad rap
24.anyone who is labeled a geek,we all know who that is
25.anyone who pretends to be a geek because suddenly its cool
26.anyone who smokes
27.anyoe who drinks
28.anyone who watch's something on tv that not en vogue
29.anyone who actually uses the word en vogue
30.anyone who has a politclly incorrect idea
31.someone who wants to supress what i beleive in to make theres beliefs look better
32.anyone who wants to take away my salt...i have my eye on you
33.anyone that want to make my soda smaller, for my own good of course
34.anyone who likes any kind of music
35.anyone who smiles at me a lies right to my face
36.those that like cats
37.those that like dogs
38.those that like any pet that others might not like
39.anyone whos skinny
40.anyone whos fat....can we still say the word fat
41.anyone that works hard because they must be holding someone else back
42.anyone whos lazy
43.anyone of any color at all they discrimitate against color blind people
44.anyone who is patriot because they must be warmongering simpletons
45.anyone who uses the internet without paying taxes on it
46.anyone who buys anything that someone else cant afford
47.doodlebug anklebiter because im sure he will say something on the forums that ticks soneone off llol
wait wait..crap this is about 47% opppps
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The sick thing is that Romney's 'point' was that these 'self appointed victims' / 'moochers' / 'leeches' / 'takers' / et cetera (as thejeff said, republicans/conservatives have been making nasty comments about this for years before Romney's tape came out) will ALL vote for Obama... when in fact, Romney will probably get more votes from them than Obama does.
The largest group in 'the 47%' are retired people... who are more likely to vote than citizens as a whole and who also have voted in higher percentages for Republicans than Democrats in every presidential election of the past 40 years or so. While the working poor DO tend to vote more for Democrats they are a smaller portion of the 47% AND generally LESS likely to vote than citizens as a whole.
In short, there are a lot of angry conservatives out there parroting Romney's talking points about these lazy 'entitled' people who are destroying our country... without realizing that he means them.