Republicans complain about 47% paying no federal income tax -why?

[Sundial]

Old people.
Make them pay their share!

oh boy, you people and your dramatics

I mean look at her... Sitting there... In her wheelchair... Paying no taxes.

She could get a job if she needed to.

 

[jknowgood]

Also: because half of all Republicans are old farts living off Social Security who can't figure out they're part of the 47% themselves.

lovely

I know. Isn't it amazing?

Once people hit 65 most of them have stopped paying income taxes. Once they're in their 70's hardly any of them are paying anything at all.

Romney hates old people, but most of them are Republicans!

If most old people are republicans, then why do liberals tell old people, republicans want to take your ss away? Makes no sense, but neither do liberals.

 

[Salt Jones]

Republicans complain about 47% paying no federal income tax -why?

Is it because they want to raise taxes on the poor?

Is it because they hate the poor?

Or is it because they like to bitch and complain?

It's because a majority of those in the 47% are more than capable of getting a damn job, and there is no need they should be living off of the hard work of others who do pay their Taxes.

You do know that 61% of that 47% pay payroll taxes, right? Don't you need a job to pay payroll taxes?

 

[Salt Jones]

lovely

I know. Isn't it amazing?

Once people hit 65 most of them have stopped paying income taxes. Once they're in their 70's hardly any of them are paying anything at all.

Romney hates old people, but most of them are Republicans!

If most old people are republicans, then why do liberals tell old people, republicans want to take your ss away? Makes no sense, but neither do liberals.

You really don't understand? Really?

 

[Salt Jones]

Old people.
Make them pay their share!

oh boy, you people and your dramatics

I prefer the Dells, but to each his own.

 

[Murf76]

Because EVERYONE should have a little skin in the game. That's what keeps politicians honest. It doesn't mean squat to people who don't pay if Congress wastes money, or if it raises taxes, or if it won't bother to make a budget. For the 47% of people who pay no federal income tax, politicians aren't accountable for that money.

But you know, there's also dignity in work and in paying your little bit toward providing a civil society. There's a measure of ownership in it. The political class isn't the boss of you, you're the boss of it.

Democrats LIKE putting people on the dole. It leaves them free from accountability. They can sort citizens into the appropriate plantation furrow, sprinkle them liberally with fertilizer and sparingly with crumbs... and then harvest their votes every two years. It's sick.

 

[whitehall]

Hatred might have caused you to miss the point which is that the 47% who don't pay tax are likely to vote for democrats. Pretty ironic that the radical left wing doesn't mind if Media Matters and American Bridge pay no taxes because they are an arm of the Hussein administration.

 

[Sundial]

lovely

I know. Isn't it amazing?

Once people hit 65 most of them have stopped paying income taxes. Once they're in their 70's hardly any of them are paying anything at all.

Romney hates old people, but most of them are Republicans!

If most old people are republicans, then why do liberals tell old people, republicans want to take your ss away? Makes no sense, but neither do liberals.

In 2010, "the old swung massively for Republicans, voting for them by a 21% margin... of all age groups, the old leaned the most toward the Republicans."

http://www.princeton.edu/~starr/articles/articles11/Starr_GOPSeniorMoment_1-2011.pdf

 

[OKTexas]

Or could it have to do with the 14th Amendment and the equal protection clause and the fact that the income tax burden is not equally shared by ALL income earners. When you have 47% of income earners having no skin in the game, to quote foot in the mouth Joe, they have no reason to want a reduction in spending as they are directly benefited by that spending.

There should be a flat tax that applies from the first dollar to the last, with no exemptions, exclusions or deductions, that way every income earner pays their fair share.

Ben Franklin said and I'm paraphrasing, the republic will stand until the people realize they can vote themselves money from the treasury.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Republicans complain about 47% paying no federal income tax -why?

Is it because they want to raise taxes on the poor?

Is it because they hate the poor?

Or is it because they like to bitch and complain?

If 47% of us didn't have to pay to see a movie, the other 53% wouldn't get in.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for food, 53% of us would have to pay out the ass for whatever was left.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for gas, we wouldn't care what the other 53% had to pay.


If we all had to pay in something, we would all be more concerned about how our money is spent and not just care who kept our free ride going.



That's called 'setting a match Two the strawman'

 

[RDD_1210]

Republicans complain about 47% paying no federal income tax -why?

Is it because they want to raise taxes on the poor?

Is it because they hate the poor?

Or is it because they like to bitch and complain?

If 47% of us didn't have to pay to see a movie, the other 53% wouldn't get in.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for food, 53% of us would have to pay out the ass for whatever was left.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for gas, we wouldn't care what the other 53% had to pay.


If we all had to pay in something, we would all be more concerned about how our money is spent and not just care who kept our free ride going.



That's called 'setting a match Two the strawman'

Another poor person is here! Yeah, let's get a first hand account of why you don't want to take responsibility for your own life.

I love that you idiots show up on cue.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Old people.
Make them pay their share!

They already did.

strawchild

 

[Two Thumbs]

Republicans complain about 47% paying no federal income tax -why?

Is it because they want to raise taxes on the poor?

Is it because they hate the poor?

Or is it because they like to bitch and complain?

If 47% of us didn't have to pay to see a movie, the other 53% wouldn't get in.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for food, 53% of us would have to pay out the ass for whatever was left.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for gas, we wouldn't care what the other 53% had to pay.


If we all had to pay in something, we would all be more concerned about how our money is spent and not just care who kept our free ride going.



That's called 'setting a match Two the strawman'

Another poor person is here! Yeah, let's get a first hand account of why you don't want to take responsibility for your own life.

I love that you idiots show up on cue.

hey!! it's moron! How you doing today moron?

What kind of moron mocks a poor person who is willing to pay taxes?

A complete moron!






Feel free to post useless non-sense, cuz I'm off to work.

 

[RDD_1210]

If 47% of us didn't have to pay to see a movie, the other 53% wouldn't get in.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for food, 53% of us would have to pay out the ass for whatever was left.
If 47% of us didn't have to pay for gas, we wouldn't care what the other 53% had to pay.


If we all had to pay in something, we would all be more concerned about how our money is spent and not just care who kept our free ride going.



That's called 'setting a match Two the strawman'

Another poor person is here! Yeah, let's get a first hand account of why you don't want to take responsibility for your own life.

I love that you idiots show up on cue.

hey!! it's moron! How you doing today moron?

What kind of moron mocks a poor person who is willing to pay taxes?

A complete moron!






Feel free to post useless non-sense, cuz I'm off to work.

When are you going to start taking responsibility for your own life? Did you know that if you just started sending in more money to the government that your life will get better. True story. The problem with the country is that poor people such as yourself aren't poor enough. You have it too easy and the best way to motivate you is to raise your taxes. So what's the wait? Our country would return to greatness once poor people such as yourself started pitching in and stopped mooching off the rich people in this country who have all earned their way to the top.

 

[Peach]

Republicans complain about 47% paying no federal income tax -why?

Is it because they want to raise taxes on the poor?

Is it because they hate the poor?

Or is it because they like to bitch and complain?

MITT said INCOME tax, he forgot about those who live in states that have an income tax; like almost all CONs he ignores the other TAXES.

 

[OKTexas]

Republicans complain about 47% paying no federal income tax -why?

Is it because they want to raise taxes on the poor?

Is it because they hate the poor?

Or is it because they like to bitch and complain?

MITT said INCOME tax, he forgot about those who live in states that have an income tax; like almost all CONs he ignores the other TAXES.

Like most libtards, you forget he's running for a federal office so he would have no reason to reference a state level tax.

Got talking points?

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Avatar4321]

Representation without taxation is just as dangerous as taxation without representation.

 

[Too Tall]

Also: because half of all Republicans are old farts living off Social Security who can't figure out they're part of the 47% themselves.

Those old farts paid into FICA most of their working lives. The I in FICA stands for INSURANCE. All they are doing is collecting on the policy that they paid for.

Don't blame the old folks because the Feds mismanaged an insurance program to the point that it is nearing bankruptcy. BTW, the premiums were mandatory! Does that ring a bell?

 

[courseofhistory]

Here are some other reasons why Mitt Romney is dead wrong about 47% being dependent and victims, feeling entitled:

But it is the dependency issue that requires real information. Income for the lower half of American earners has been growing very slowly since the late 1970s -- more or less when Ronald Reagan took office. Compared to economies overseas, the wage performance has been just plain bad.

Why? The declines of unions, the refusal to raise the minimum wage with inflation, and the increased pressure by Wall Street to minimize expenses in the short run -- typically labor expenses -- have all contributed. So have rapidly lost manufacturing jobs and globalization in general. Finally, on average economic growth was slow in the 1980s until the mid-1990s. Only in the late 1990s did growth push the unemployment rate down adequately to boost incomes for the lower half. In the 2000s, we had adequate growth but little job or wage growth. Without social programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit, the lower half would have hardly seen incomes grow at all.

Was dependency a cause of low incomes? This is easily refuted nonsense. Had social programs hurt rather than helped Americans, poverty rates would have been low in the 1950s. As Michael Harrington alerted America, the poverty rate was probably 30 percent in the 1950s. Finally, the U.S. government computed a poverty line -- a low one, mind you. It found the poverty rate at about 22 percent.

Why? Couldn't have been dependency. The War on Poverty had not yet begun. By the 1970s, however, the poverty rate was down to 11 percent. As Social Security expanded, elderly poverty rates fell from 50 percent to about 10 percent. And so on. These are the purposes of government, Mitt.

On our Rediscovering Government website you can find a set of charts and an important summary paper by Lane Kenworthy on this issue.