Amid the furor over Mitt Romney’s “inelegant” remarks about the 47% of Americans who are “freeloaders” — who pay no net federal income tax (FIT) — many rebuttals have shown that he slagged mostly retirees, lower middle class workers (who still pay payroll and other taxes), and even our fighting men and women who get their combat pay untaxed. (Along with a darned big slab of millionaires and corporations whose accountants and lawyers get them off scot free.) Note also that the fraction who pay no FIT had its biggest increase under George W. Bush. What’s astonishing is the fact that many let him get away with a conflation of two entirely separate statistics. The 55% of the public who support President Obama and the 47% who pay no FIT are supposed (by Romney) to completely overlap. David Brin ☀
Thursday 4 October 2012
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