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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 12:18 AM Sep 2012

Juan Cole: Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Other Non-Taxpayers Leeches

http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/tax-deadbeat-romney-calls-other-non-taxpayers-leeches.html

Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls other non-Taxpayers Leeches

Published on September 18th, 2012
Written by: Juan

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Food? I mean, don’t 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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Juan Cole: Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Other Non-Taxpayers Leeches (Original Post) Hissyspit Sep 2012 OP
He can't see himself in a mirror, though. freshwest Sep 2012 #1
unless it's mounted on the ceiling at a sex party tomm2thumbs Sep 2012 #3
Cole's title says it all. chill_wind Sep 2012 #2
When his god calls him Bohunk68 Sep 2012 #4
You got that right madokie Sep 2012 #13
I can't believe it took a whole day before a pundit stated the obvious: ROMNEY pays no income tax. TrollBuster9090 Sep 2012 #5
That's profound. *like* Care Acutely Sep 2012 #6
Thank you! :) TrollBuster9090 Sep 2012 #9
I love everything you said renate Sep 2012 #7
Thank you, Steven! TrollBuster9090 Sep 2012 #10
Romney turned the spotlight right back on his missing tax returns aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #8
Here's the POT, Mr. Romney! agentS Sep 2012 #11
Cole's graph shows senior citizens are the biggest "leeches" in romney's world. pampango Sep 2012 #12

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
3. unless it's mounted on the ceiling at a sex party
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 02:14 AM
Sep 2012

at one of his Republican fundraiser orgies, that is

chill_wind

(13,514 posts)
2. Cole's title says it all.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:54 AM
Sep 2012

The breathtaking irony of Romney's unconscionable screed is almost indescribable.

Bohunk68

(1,364 posts)
4. When his god calls him
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:15 AM
Sep 2012

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.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
5. I can't believe it took a whole day before a pundit stated the obvious: ROMNEY pays no income tax.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:16 AM
Sep 2012

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.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
8. Romney turned the spotlight right back on his missing tax returns
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:38 AM
Sep 2012

just when some here were lamenting that the issue might die. Thanks, Mitt.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
12. Cole's graph shows senior citizens are the biggest "leeches" in romney's world.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 05:25 AM
Sep 2012

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 don’t 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.

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