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To: i-node who wrote (674288)	9/18/2012 9:51:39 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1584324

The government’s revenue problem does not start with the poor but with the richest people, through the Bush tax cuts and other changes. The tax cuts for the richest people should expire now, and the middle-class cuts should do so eventually. But that will not happen as long as people like Mr. Romney protect the rich by turning the working poor and middle class into the enemy. Mr. Romney may have been talking about electoral tactics: those people are going to vote for Mr. Obama, so let’s concentrate on our kind of people. It’s also possible that he was mouthing the words of the extreme right without really believing them. But all the possible explanations say terrible things about Mr. Romney’s character. The right wing has long been whining about people who don’t pay taxes and who, therefore, don’t deserve a say in government. They have it backward. The shame is not that those people don’t pay income taxes. The shame is how many poor people there are when the top 1 percent can amass uncountable fortunes fed by tax breaks and can donate tens of millions of dollars to political candidates to keep it that way.

To: i-node who wrote (674288)	9/19/2012 10:57:23 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584324

There are all kinds of ways of parsing his comments, but the essential concept is absolutely factual There's nothing to parse...the man said that 47% of very specific people, many of which are HIS supporters, many work and don't earn enough, many are retired and elderly, many are in the military....are parasites at the teat of the government...and his tone was very cynical...hell, HE and many like him ARE ONE OF THE 47%....paying a mere 14% of his income in taxes...many of the people he was condemning pay a much higher percentage in total taxes than he does....these comments may stoke your emotions and those of tea party affiliates but it does serious harm to his campaign...this guy is the ultimate transactional fellow...meaning that he will taylor his remarks, and I suspect his eventual policies, to multiple audiences regardless of how disparate their respective interests might be....that my friend is a man without conviction....a classic hypocrite. Al