What Romney said is 47% pay no income tax and would not care about his low tax message If I were Romney when Obama mentions the 47% I would just say we aren’t talking about the 47% that can’t and need help we are talking about those that won’t and are taking advantage. We will eliminate waste save money and be able to help those that really need it more.
The lower 50% of the population in terms of income could be taxed 100% of everything they've got, and the top 50% would not benefit thereby, which just about everybody understands, so arguments to raise taxes on the poor don't go over well among the poor, nor do they go over well among the rich! Romney can't get a single additional vote demanding a tax increase on the lower 50%, or by kvetching about their foibles.
I know just about everybody who watches FOX has been subjected to Hannity's campaign to raise taxes on the poor for most of a year ~ but please, always remember this, he says he's not a Republican, and not a Democrat, and not a Conservative (he believes in income taxes and that takes you out of the main stream of Conservative thought right there), so what is he?
I suspect he's still mad at the first boss he had who tried to push him off a roof