[dragnet2]

I don't that was the posters point.

The point was many people work, but don't earn enough to pay fed taxes. I imagine they are part of what he considered part of that 47%.

No?

[freepertoo]

No. He’s talking about people who don’t make a decent living because they choose not to. I know several people in that category.

[Mr Rogers]

“The point was many people work, but don’t earn enough to pay fed taxes.”

The problem is that those people get to vote to get money FROM the government. My son works. He doesn’t have much. Last year, he got thousands in EITC. I told him to consider it a transfer from me to him, with the feds taking a cut for administration.

But he gets to vote to RECEIVE the EITC. His ‘tax refund’ was much greater than his tax payments. His every incentive, other than his upbringing, is to continue to vote for those who will hand him cash. My cash.

It is theft under the guise of public policy.