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Mitt Romney was right: Too many Americans are dependent on government
The Hill ^ | 08/25/2021 | Chris Talgo

Posted on 08/25/2021 6:08:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

In 2012, then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was pilloried by the press for his comment that 47 percent of Americans pay no income taxes.

“Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax,” Romney factually stated.

That was then. This is now.

According to a new report from the Urban Institute & Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, “The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy response to it led to an extraordinary increase in the number of American households that owed no federal individual income tax in 2020.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Michigan; US: Utah; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; americans; california; dependent; government; michigan; mittromney; nancypelosi; romney; utah; waronterror
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If this were true then why does he vote with commie scum on bills like infrastructure that cost trillions?
1 posted on 08/25/2021 6:08:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No Romney - you’re not running for President again and making people dependent on government is why you’ve been doing all along.


2 posted on 08/25/2021 6:10:00 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And yet he voted for the infrastructure bill???

As always, Mitt speaks from both sides of his disgusting mouth.


3 posted on 08/25/2021 6:12:32 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Traitor Joe is NOT my president)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

- worst carpetbagging governor in US history of Mass.

- made millions as the backstabber of hundreds of thousands
of children, women, and then POTUS.

- ruined companies, made the state give them RomneyCARE.


4 posted on 08/25/2021 6:13:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s how they destroy a country. They get people voting for the continuation of their “benefits.” You get “benefits” with a price tag attached: taxes and loss of freedom.


5 posted on 08/25/2021 6:13:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; ...

Well, Willard, had you actually run a REAL campaign for President instead of being a ringer for Zero to PREVENT an actual Conservative opponent, maybe you could’ve done something about it. In the meantime, resign so that Utah can have a real Senator who isn’t a fake, leftist Derp State douche.


6 posted on 08/25/2021 6:16:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pure Globalist Demon .
Why does not Evil like this every DIE .


7 posted on 08/25/2021 6:17:24 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ROMNEY is never right.


8 posted on 08/25/2021 6:20:03 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mitt is part of the problem.


9 posted on 08/25/2021 6:21:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mitt is the absolute worst - I would vote for AOC over Mitt


10 posted on 08/25/2021 6:31:54 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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He would happily serve as her ringer to make sure you did just that.


11 posted on 08/25/2021 6:33:40 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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Too many Americans AND STATES are dependent on government, all according to the Left's plan for unconstitutional governmental tyranny.
12 posted on 08/25/2021 6:36:32 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That is a guiding principle of the Conservative Movement - and crediting a RINO like Mitt Romney with saying it is just weird.


13 posted on 08/25/2021 6:37:20 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The guy who set up romneycare in MA?

Shut the f up. We already know this.


14 posted on 08/25/2021 6:40:07 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These are the Assistant Democrats that enabled the latest assault on the USA

Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)

They knew when they were voting for the $1.2 trillion they were enabling the bigger, worse one.


15 posted on 08/25/2021 6:41:00 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: enumerated

But...but....Mitt is ‘severely’ Conservative, don’cha know.


16 posted on 08/25/2021 6:42:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

OOOOooooooohhhh he’s in trouble now!

Admitting the truth is not allowed


17 posted on 08/25/2021 6:45:19 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What did he say while he was just planning on losing as planned? Whatever he wants to make the phoney look legit?


18 posted on 08/25/2021 6:46:19 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Amazon paid no US Income Tax.
Google paid no US Income Tax.
Facebook paid no US Income Tax.

Some years, when the stars aligned just right, I “paid” no income tax; I ‘DEFEREDR’ US Income tax to the following year.

That’s not the issue.

That WIllard is a dishonest prick is the issue.


19 posted on 08/25/2021 6:47:42 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: dfwgator

Oh yeah - I forgot


20 posted on 08/25/2021 6:50:09 AM PDT by enumerated
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