Romney On 47 Percent: ‘I Said Something That’s Just Completely Wrong’

[jmowreader]

33. He said quite a few wrong things there...

First is his assertion that 47 percent of Americans don't pay federal income taxes. (I have to specify because if I just say 'taxes,' implying that everyone KNOWS that's what the issue is about, someone here is sure to ask, 'what about sales taxes, gasoline taxes, indirect taxes like property tax on a rental apartment, etc.?') It probably was true during the couple of years we had the Making Work Pay credit, but it certainly isn't now.

Second is the implication that anyone in this whatever-the-real-number-is is a shiftless bum who drives his or her Cadillac to the welfare office.

There's probably a third but my brain hurts just thinking about it.

Suffice it to say that if President Obama would have Mitt Romney fitted with magnets and placed in a big coil, his flip-flops and spins would generate enough energy to light up Boston.