Mitt Romney calls half of America freeloaders

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Originally Posted by Danzig

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/20...g_to_say_.html

Romney is conflating the people who pay no net income tax with the people so dependent on government aid that they have to vote for Obama. But these aren't the same people! Most of the "lucky duckies," to use the classic WSJ term, are old people who subsist on Social Security. Elderly voters broke big for Republicans in 2010. Scores of poor whites who benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit vote for Republicans.


and remember, the comments he made were for rich donors, not us peasants. he didn't mean for that to get out. now it has-and it's gonna cost him, as it should.

interesting article even more interesting is to hear rationalizations from people as they vote against their own self interests. According to this it is not ok to pay no taxes because your income - legal deductions don't meet the minimum standards for taxation however it is pefectly fine to EVADE taxes by stashing your cash in the Caymans.