Is Mitt Romney right to question representation without taxation?

The Telegraph ^ | September 19th, 2012 | Ian Cowie

[Sherman Logan]

I'm not sure how Europe got into the conversation.

Possibly because it's an article from Europe comparing conditions between there and here?

[Smokin' Joe]

I thought the germane part of the article dealt with the increasing number of people here who vote themselves benefits from the public trough, yet don't fill that trough.

I'd prefer for the bulk of taxes (and government) to be State and Local--they're easier to vote out, our Federal Representation is the Constitutional minimum, and one size just doesn't fit all--but that would ideally require a much smaller Federal Government, not a much larger State and Local one (with the Federal leviathan remaining the same).

[achilles2000]

If you don’t pay federal income tax you are almost certainly a net tax consumer, which is to say that you get more than you give. Even some who pay federal income taxes are net tax consumers.

Net tax consumers pay no taxes.