"Video of Romney's comments hit the web like a NASCAR driver hydroplaning on a puddle of motor oil"

[highplainsdem]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/romney-doesnt-care-about-poor-after-all/56945/

Romney Doesn't Care About the Poor, After All
Adam Clark Estes 9:23 PM ET


Mitt Romney really goofed up when he stood in front of a room of wealthy donors at a campaign event and basically trash-talked the 47 percent of Americans "who pay no income tax" and "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." It certainly doesn't help that the host of the event, private equity tycoon Mark Leder, has been known to have late night naked parties in the Hamptons. But that's beside the point.

The leaked video of Romney's comments hit the web like a NASCAR driver hydroplaning on a puddle of motor oil. Romney, of course, is the driver doing his best to keep his car on the track and the puddle of motor oil, well, that's the 47 percent of Americans that Romney just ran over with his multi-million dollar stock car. Because these folks are hardly the tax-evading sacks of welfare-grubbing deadbeats Romney makes them out to be. They're the laid-off workers and struggling parents and debt-riddled college graduates that Romney's supposed to be supporting.

Understanding that a large proportion of that group did pay payroll taxes, half of that 47 percent were elderly and another third earned less than $20,000 a year. As The New York Times' Michael Cooper points out, the latter group doesn't pay income tax, in large part, thanks to the GOP-supported Earned Income Tax Credit. This is a program that was added to the tax code under President Gerald Ford and expanded under Ronald Reagan who called his tax overhaul package "one of the best anti-poverty programs this country has ever seen."

Slighting America's working poor stings Romney's campaign for a very specific reason. From the beginning, the multimillionaire has been criticized for being out of touch with every day Americans, especially those with the lowest income. This is why people like Dana Carvey assign lines like "I hate the poor and want to kill them!" to Romney.

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. They don't really care about us

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[bhikkhu]

2. And they are plenty of "working poor" who pay their share of other taxes, without complaint

state taxes, property taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes...

I'm very happy that the federal income tax structure is progressive enough to give me a break while I'm working and raising kids, and I'm also happy to be able to pay my share in other taxes!

[NightWatcher]

3. Did Dan Rather write this? Like a nascar driver hydro......

Damn I miss him