Also, I wonder how many working people who don't pay income tax think of themselves as not paying income tax. I mean, look at how much gets taken out of their check!
Yeah, there are so many reasons that 47% number is bullshit.
Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Sep 18, 2012 6:03:12 am PDT #22530 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Volans - Sep 18, 2012 6:10:56 am PDT #22531 of 30001
move out and draw fire
I mean, look at how much gets taken out of their check!
True - they are paying property tax, payroll tax, etc.
Steph L. - Sep 18, 2012 6:11:55 am PDT #22532 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Naw, man, I think Romney is right. I mean, *I'm* an Obama voter, and I totally think I have the right to eat rather than starve.
Boy howdy, he totally pegged me. Damn Democrats who subsist on food.
erikaj - Sep 18, 2012 6:12:04 am PDT #22533 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Totally. But apparently, I'm now a tapeworm.(Bet my typos are very forgivable, now) It will take more than Ann's mythical powers of niceness to fix that.
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 6:13:59 am PDT #22534 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
But apparently, I'm now a tapeworm.(Bet my typos are very forgivable, now)
I think you meant to say "tapos".
Jesse - Sep 18, 2012 6:16:02 am PDT #22535 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But seriously, Steph, he thinks food is a privilege, not a right.
Steph L. - Sep 18, 2012 6:18:22 am PDT #22536 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
But seriously, Steph, he thinks food is a privilege, not a right.
Well, you know, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. FOR EATING FOOD.
Burrell - Sep 18, 2012 6:22:07 am PDT #22537 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I don't think most people get the difference between not paying income taxes but paying other taxes. They honestly believe there are some mythical Americans out there who manage to never pay any taxes on anything, period. The cynical part of me says that's why the media keep emphasizing the 47% meme, because they know it won't make any difference to his image and the goal of the press these days seems to be to not print anything that might actually change the election until after the election.
For me, the comment that seem the most damning is when he complained that Those People felt "entitled" to food, shelter, and health care and that his job is to not care about them. The idea that a country as rich as the US would deny food and shelter and basic health care to its poorest citizens is appalling to me.
Burrell - Sep 18, 2012 6:24:39 am PDT #22538 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
But seriously, Steph, he thinks food is a privilege, not a right.
Yes! I mean, does he really think that? Isn't food the most basic of needs, followed by safety and shelter?
Jessica - Sep 18, 2012 6:25:50 am PDT #22539 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It is really sad when reality out-parodies Stephen Colbert.