This guy is so brain dead he contradicts himself in one sentence:”... Romney’s ridiculous remarks that nearly half of American people do not pay federal income taxes, they pay other federal and state taxes..” Romney wasn’t talking about other taxes, he was talking about income taxes and this idiots attempt to say he was wrong doesn’t even make sense. Typical liberal.
Not only that, but then Rangel goes on to compare the total tax payments of low-income people with Romney's federal income tax payments only. That is obviously NOT a valid comparison. You have to compare total tax payments for low-income people and Romney, including state income taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Being a resident of MA, I'm sure Mitt Romney pays a whole lot of state income taxes (probably at least 9%), and I'm sure he pays a lot of property taxes on the home he owns, plus sales taxes. So when you do a valid comparison, Romney very likely pays a higher percentage in total tax payments than people in the lower 40% of the income distribution. And of course because his income is so much higher than the lower-income people, Romney's total tax payments measured in dollars are massively higher (easily 1000X higher) than the average low income person. It's not the high income people who build businesses and pay all the taxes they legally owe that hurt the middle class. The people who hurt the middle class are all the criminals in prison (including many illegal immigrants) who cost the taxpayers $45,000 per year to house and guard, and all the people on food stamps, housing subsidies, and medicaid because they never made the effort to educate and train themselves to do good-paying jobs. Those are the people who drain tax money out of the middle class year after year, and those are the people I'm tired of supporting with my own hard work every year.
People like the Romney family who build businesses, build strong families, and always stay out of trouble with the police are the backbone of the American economy. The people who hurt our economy and our society are mainly the inner-city slobs and illegal immigrants soaking up government benefits while getting involved in all kinds of destructive criminal activity. I'd like to hear Rangel, just once, talk to a group of high school drop-outs in his district and tell the truth to them and say..."you guys are a bunch of screw-offs who have very poor mental work habits...you don't read well, you don't work at all in school, you haven't learned anything much in school, and you're on a path to go nowhere in your lives unless you change direction and start working and start educating and training yourselves." I challenge Charlie Rangel to say that just once on television...to actually tell the truth to kids in his district. I betcha he can't do it.