My dad, as you probably, know was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico... and, uh, had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this," Romney said. "But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico.... I mean I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino."
Touche!Lurker wrote:Sneer at them? According to Embar you work with them.
Fallakin Kuvari wrote:Because laws that require voters to have an ID (Something they are required to have anyway) are bad....
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 5b203d8.51"And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel....'"
Obama - 1998 wrote:I think that what we're going to have to do is resuscitate the notion that government action can be effective at all. There has been a systematic — I don't think it's too strong to call it a propaganda campaign — against the possibility of government action and its efficacy. And I think some of it's been deserved. Chicago Housing Authority has not been a model of good policy-making and neither, necessarily, have been the Chicago public schools.
What this means, then, is that we try to resuscitate this notion that we're all in this together, leave nobody behind, we do have to be innovative in thinking what are the delivery systems that are actually effective and meet people where they live. And my suggestion, I guess, would be that the trick — and this is one of the few areas I think that there are technical issues that need to be dealt with as opposed to just political issues — I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.
Wow that is about a useless fucking chart.Harlowe wrote:Mitt Romney's 47% Disproportionately Live In Republican States.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-rom ... tes-2012-9
What costs the tax payer 128 billion per year? SSI disability payments. Care to tell us again how you can't get away with not working forever?Partha wrote:Americans embarrass me, mostly when they get the idea in their head that welfare is a 50k+ a year proposition and you can get away with not working forever. Reagan's strapping young bucks and Cadillac Queens again.
Got a standing ovation.
— 53.6 percent of households pay the federal income tax. Presumably Romney is okay with these folks.
— 28.3 percent of households pay no federal income tax, but they do pay the payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare. That means they don’t need Mitt Romney to convince them to “take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” They already have jobs.
Most of the households in this group don’t pay any federal income tax because they qualify for enough deductions that their income tax liability has shrunk to zero. See this Tax Policy Center report for more, which gives an example of “a couple with two children earning less than $26,400. They get an $11,600 standard deduction and four exemptions of $3,700, and that takes their liability to zero.” Indeed, it’s worth noting that many of these deductions and credits were part of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, which Romney wants to extend.
— 10.3 percent of households pay no federal income tax because they’re retired and elderly. Many retirees aren’t taxed on their Social Security benefits, which they earned by paying into the system over many years. If Mitt Romney secretly thinks that these households are all irresponsible freeloaders, he has a weird way of showing it, as he keeps insisting that he doesn’t want to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits for those over the age of 65.
— That leaves 6.9 percent of households which are non-elderly and have incomes less than $20,000 per year and aren’t paying the payroll tax. These poorer households pay neither income taxes nor payroll taxes. Perhaps Romney thinks that they should all pay more in federal taxes. It’s hard to say. But this is also a much smaller fraction of Americans.