Who are the ’47 percenters’?
Video on msnbc.com: Mitt Romney told donors that 47 percent of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes and expect government handouts, but he wasn’t exactly right. MSNBC’s Alex Wagner and the NOW pan...
“My job is not to worry about those people,” Mitt Romney said of the 47 percent of Americans who are likely to vote for Barack Obama. “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
There will be plenty said about the politics of Romney’s remarks. But I want to take a moment and talk about the larger argument behind them, because this vision of a society divided between “makers” and “takers” is core to the Republican nominee’s policy agenda.
Eleven years ago, eliminating income taxes for low-income Americans was an applause line for a Republican president. Mitt Romney in 2012 sees the number of people paying nothing as a political problem...
Romney’s theory of the “taker class,” and why it matters
Why do nearly half of U.S families pay no federal income taxes? Low income and special programs for the elderly, the working poor and families with children.
How paying no federal income taxes helps the poor get off welfare and into work
Mitt Romney’s bashing of the 47 percent of people who pay no federal income taxes may have sounded like a shocking admission to liberals, but it’s a talking point that conservatives--and not just Romn...
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