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Romney's 47 percenters


Posted: Sep 18, 2012

live mostly in the south:  Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas, New Mexico, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Idaho.  45% of those 47 percenters live in Mississippi.  30.4% are the working poor who, even in their struggle to survive, still don’t earn enough to pay income tax so they get tax credits for their children.  They still pay payroll taxes and other taxes. 44% are senior citizens who receive SS and have already paid into the system; 5.6% are students who get education credits.  Looks like Romney is throwing a lot of his supporters under the bus and they still don’t realize it.  I’m not sure he was making reference to the 3000 high income earners who made more than $24 million and paid no federal income taxes.

U.S. Population statistics:  Whites 78.1%, Non-Hispanic Whites 63.4%, Blacks 13.1%; Hispanics 16.7%. 

When you look at the facts, it's gets more difficult to pit the races against each other with the food stamp, moocher argument.

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He's really talking about citizens who support safety - net programs, not the poor or Dems per se.

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BTW, note that that statement was at a $50K/plate fund raiser in response to a question about how he's going to "...in two months...convince everybody, you've got to take care of yourself?"

This is NOT an attack on a mythical 47% of the population who are liberal and don't pay taxes, it's about all the people who do pay taxes, pay into social programs they feel are desirable, and support those programs. Half of them his own supporters.

Right. It's not about Pub, red states, etc. It's about - what he'd do with Social Security.

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Good businessman that he is, maybe he just intends to profitize it, not destroy it entirely?

I think you mean privatize : ) - (but I like profitize!)

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I meant that in their eyes privatize IS profitize. Only accident - is if they get their hands on my money. :)NM
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I found a different list. - What on earth?

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Well why don't you - vf

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