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http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/tax-deadbeat-romney-calls-other-non-taxpayers-leeches.htmlTax Deadbeat Romney Calls other non-Taxpayers Leeches
Published on September 18th, 2012
Written by: Juan
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Food? I mean, dont human beings kind of deserve food? Is Romney for starving the poor to death so as to avoid having to pay any taxes? Would 46 million emaciated dead American bodies be all right by him? Note that food stamp recipients typically are temporarily on the program. Some are low-paid members of the US armed forces.
The first thing to say is that Romney himself may well have paid no income taxes in recent years. (He claims he paid 13% annually in taxes, but has not proved he paid *income taxes.*) Generally speaking, American corporations pay more for lobbyists than they do in Federal taxes.
The second thing to say is that a hundred percent Americans pay taxes. Federal income tax is only one kind of tax. Most workers pay payroll taxes. In Michigan, we have a 6% retail tax that is regressive and is paid by all consumers, no matter how poor or unemployed or retired. We have local property taxes that even the retired have to pay. Then, everyone who works pays social security, though the rich pay it only on income up to $96,000 a year and after that their further income is exempt (but why?). So actually, the working poor, workers and the middle classes are paying for social security all by themselves.
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Only by not looking too closely into all taxes and who exactly pays them and why can Romney create this phantom of the non-tax-paying leech. Well there is some truth in it. All he has to do is look in the mirror to see it.
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)at one of his Republican fundraiser orgies, that is
chill_wind
(13,514 posts)The breathtaking irony of Romney's unconscionable screed is almost indescribable.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)home to Kolub, then his grave will become the most saturated ground in the country as 150 Million Americans create traffic jams on their way there.
madokie
(51,076 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)Not only that, but he lives in a CULTURE OF ENTITLEMENT. The 1% live in a culture of entitlement where they think they are superior to the plebs, work harder (that's a laugh...they've obviously never calculated how many hours you have to work just to make rent if you're working of minimum wage), and DESERVE to pay less or no taxes because they 'create jobs.' They also believe they shouldn't have to go to jail for committing 'white collar crimes' the way regular folks do. Defraud your own clients, and make money off of short selling the crap YOU advised them to buy? Heck..that's not a crime, it's a collared hedge. Only the PLEBS think of that in terms of 'crime.'
But personally, I find it disgusting to think that some guy can own FIVE MANSIONS, and if one of them ever catches on fire, the salaries of the guys who come to put it out were paid NOT by the guy who owns it, but by the woman he hired to mop his floors and scrub his toilets.
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Everything.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)just when some here were lamenting that the issue might die. Thanks, Mitt.
agentS
(1,325 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Actually, obviously *more* than half of Americans pay no Federal income tax. They are children, homemakers, retired and elderly, unemployed, under-employed, or working poor. Why would you expect them to pay taxes? I thought Romney was all upset when Ann Romney was accused of never having worked a day in her life because mother and homemaker is *work*. But now stay at home mothers are leeches and suckers for Obama because they dont file an independent income tax form?
Almost all those who pay no Federal income tax are youth or elderly retirees:
http://economistsview.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b33869e2017d3c1e209a970c-800wi
Romney's blast at people who don't pay income taxes seems targeted at senior citizens and young people per the chart.