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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (354597)10/12/2007 11:20:50 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 1573685
 
John,

The percentage of taxpayers may be close to 40%, but that is mostly because of children and non-working wives etc. The percentage of voters is well below 70%.

I was just giving a hypothetical example, and if I was anywhere close to real, it was a coincidence.

I guess we have to agree to disagree if you think "voters who don't pay federal income taxes" are a large swing vote.

Well, it is not just working people who fall below the federal income threshold. (although they would be the only one subject to my tax increase)

There are milions of retirees, and other people whose derive benefits from government without contributing, or their government benefits fastly exceeds their contribution.

We better do it soon for a lot of good reasons. The minority taxpayer voters isn't one of them. Relax Jozef, the very poor are not living like kings on your tax dollars.

That was not my point. My point was to agree with you when you said:
You think the public will ever make these guys reign in spending when they don't have to pay taxes to support it?
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There is a large block of eligible voters who don't have to pay taxes to support spending - therefore have no incentive to reign in spending.

Joe
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