Romney comments resonate with base
Lewis DiuguidDon’t expect Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to apologize for saying 47 percent of Americans don’t pay income taxes and are unlikely to vote for him in the November election.
Any apology will only anger Romney’s base, which firmly believes that conservative talking point — though captured in a secretly taped closed fundraiser in May. Nevermind the reality that many Romney supporters might be in that 47 percent group.
Romney backers see the bulk of the 47 percent as people who are not like them. In their minds the 47 percenters are blacks, Hispanics, other minorities and poor whites, who as Romney put it, “believe that they are victims… believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”
It sounds a lot like coded racism.
The reality is very different. But who cares about the facts when fact-checking isn’t part of the GOP presidential campaign.
Mark Hastert
8 months ago“Romney sees one America. One which is still deserving and able to be the economic power of the world while promoting a fiscally and socially responsible, balanced society”
From his remarks it’s clear that he sees at least two one of which is the 47% who won’t take responsibility and care for their lives. The implication being that they are irresponsible, and don’t care. The problem is that, retirees (maybe even you and GH?)are part of that 47%, that the working poor and the disabled are part of that 47%. Oddly, There are 78,000 tax filers with incomes of $211,000 to $533,000 who will pay no federal income taxes this year.
There are 24,000 households with incomes of $533,000 to $2.2 million with zero income tax liability, and 3,000 tax filers with incomes above $2.2 million with the same federal income tax liability as most of those with incomes barely above the poverty level. Maybe Romney is one of them. In all the implication is you’re lazy bums….. moochers.
Donna Morrow Wolfe
8 months agoCould you please cite your source for your comment… “Obama admitted last year (long before any republican had even announced as a candidate) that he was writing off the white, middle aged, middle class worker…”