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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:18 PM Original message |
Romney: poor Americans having no income tax liability is "a problem" that will "kill the country" |
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JaneQPublic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. He wants people with no income to pay income taxes? |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Exactly. It's his position that we need to raise taxes on the poor. nt |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. can't squeeze blood out of a turnip |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Yes, let's put LESS money in the hands of people who have to spend ALL of their money. |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. technically the 0% cut off is ~8k/yr. But I agree with the general point. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. $8,000 a year is ~$660 per month. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. He wants to squeeze blood out of turnip |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. We poor Americans pay sales tax and FICA, you silver-spoon ass-turd. |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. most wages in this country have gone down |
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JaneQPublic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. Not to mention... |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
43. Mittens know this: the real problem is not large highly-profitable corporations that pay no U.S. FIT |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. yeah but does he believe this |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. I have no idea, really. But that alone is scary enough. |
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WingDinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
7. As another here said. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
8. ClassWarrior: American corporations having no income tax liability is a problem that... |
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tnlurker (698 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
9. There is an easy solution to that |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. Mittens is a terrorist-supporting, tax-dodging, thieving, elitist snob |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. He's a two-time murderer too, if "corporations are people, my friend." |
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
12. the corporations buying our country have killed it |
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dtexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
13. Easy solution: support policies that will get them out of poverty and ... |
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Spirochete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. I guess |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. You get a Brigid DUzy for this. |
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nineteen50 (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
17. The poor are so dangerous |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
19. Does he want them to become indentured servants? |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Yes. |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
21. Someone needs to inform Romney that |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
22. Any of the Republicans running for |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 01:58 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Exactly. Want a preview of what a Republican POTUS would do? |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
25. Hey Mitt you twit headline my Murdoch owned rag "Relative Poverty in US now 16%"..... |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
26. He is right, but not in the way he thinks. |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
29. A Romney Presidency Would Lay Bare Any Pretense of a Democracy |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:15 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. If Romney does win (perish the thought) |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Yep. |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
30. Willard needs a foot put so far up his ass |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
31. And dead people, they're not paying enough taxes either. |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. The Repukes haven't forgotten about dead people for one minute! |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
33. Ya Think? |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. One of the other Romney facts: he vetoed a raise in the MA minimum wage... to $8 an hour. |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Yet they should bear the tax burden |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
34. He doesn't believe this crap - it's just a stupid wedge issue. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
40. He only paid 14% on $9.6 mil - $39 mil of income for 2010. |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
41. mittens can GET ED. no more fucking for him!!!! |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
42. because taxing people who have no money |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
44. I know how we can solve that problem... |
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