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Some of those 47% of Americans who don't pay income taxes (who do, by the way, still pay sales taxes, property taxes, gasoline taxes, utility taxes and more) include:
Disabled Americans
Wounded or traumatized veterans of Americans wars
Seniors living on their Social Security checks or pensions
Unemployed American women & men were downsized or whose jobs were outsourced overseas
And a hell of lot of Americans who just weren't born into fabulous wealth like Mitt Romney, a selfish prick who was handed life on a silver fucking plate. Those 47% of our American people, nonetheless, have their dignity and pride...and they get to vote, too.
What an insensitive asswipe the GOP nominee turned out to be. He actually makes George W. Bush look like he had a heart.
Well, now we all clearly know: Mitt Willard Romney get the willies from 50% of the American People, you know, decent Americans like the ones I listed above.
By the way, of the remaining 53% who do pay income taxes, there's one big asshole in that count who doesn't always pay his fucking income taxes either and when he does, it's less than 13%. Who is the that asshole? His name is Mitt Romney.
jsr
(7,712 posts)David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)What is the name of that asshole? Mitt Romney.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Romney says half of America consists of leeches and moochers? Mitt has reopened the issue as to whether he's doing his fair share or using tax avoiding scams.
David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)!
mshasta
(2,108 posts)how insulting it is for the waiters to be serving these people and still have to put up with humiliating nonsense....
David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)What a creep he is is.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)What a jerk he is.
kentuck
(111,069 posts)...that is doing its best to prevent people from voting? Do they support that??
David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)That video is very disturbing the way he mocks half the nation.
We all know families with kids who are autistic, parents with Alzheimer's, siblings in wheel chairs and folks who just got swallowed up in the financial collapse that his cronies caused.
No wonder, as you say, the have no shame in blatantly suppressing the vote. They despise half the people in this country.
This is the best the GOP to hand to the American People? Someone who mocks them?
spanone
(135,802 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)rights or folks voting to preserve civil rights.
Marr
(20,317 posts)Pretty amazing, isn't it?
Like my brother who has Parkinson's and is a Vietnam veteran who was DRAFTED into that war away from his teaching job while Mitt was eating baguettes.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)!
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)Even the Bushes know better than to talk like this. And that's saying a lot.
Kablooie
(18,619 posts)and their parents pay anyway.
Iterate
(3,020 posts)Does this mean that the republicans are accidentally proposing a wage increase to a saving wage for that 47%? Probably not. But that is what should happen; triple the minimum wage, and triple energy costs (through taxes) while you're at it.
Then they could have their economy where no one working would need support. Surely they aren't suggesting that the 47% starve and go homeless. Well actually, yes they are.
Mister Ed
(5,927 posts)...are filthy rich, and have very good tax attorneys. And yes, they do have a smug sense of entitlement - to all that they have, and all that you have.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I'm sure he pays taxes on money he makes from stocks, etc, but that's more capital gains tax than income tax.
I could be wrong, but without an actual employer, he pays $0 in "income" taxes because he had $0 income.
ecstatic
(32,673 posts)voting against their best interests due to racism, misguided social beliefs, etc. On the other hand, I personally know several democrats who fall in the top 2% of income earners. Mitt's understanding of America is simply wrong.