that happened, in our lifetimes, america. do you think mitt romney is ever going to inspire somebody to wear a space costume on a news show? will romney ever reveal his true self-through a ring tone? mitt romney s favorite ring tone is dancing queen. i could be wrong, fernando. can you hear what he s playing there? i thought we had the subtitle there showing. dancing queen this is newt gingrich s ring tone. it s dancing queen by abba. i paid for the dancing queen ring tone and i am keeping the dancing queen ring tone.
where newt gingrich is the president. of the moon. how can anybody be president of the moon, you ask, from the past where you live? back when he was just candidate gingrich, president newt, that s what we call him president newt, he not only promised a permanent colony on the moon before the end of his second term, he said that we would have a colony. after we had a colony here, the moon could be the 51st state. that happened, in our lifetimes, america. do you think mitt romney is ever going to inspire somebody to wear a space costume on a news show? will romney ever reveal his true self-through a ring tone? mitt romney s favorite ring tone is dancing queen.
in fact, generally speaking they get back 4.8%. i m going to put a few kernels into their pot because they are not paying taxes. let s look at another group. this bag represents people who earn between $30 and $100,000 a year. that s about 40% of households in the united states. this group represents a contribution of 18%. 18% of the total personal tax revenues come from here. i m going to put about two handfuls of popcorn in the bowl to represent the taxes they pay. this bag represents people who earn between $100,000 and a million dollars a year. $100,000 to a million a year. that s about 15% of u.s. households. guess what? this group contributes more than 60% to the total pie. i m going to at that in, about six handfuls. you ve got three, four, five, six and a few extras. that s how much this group people who earn between $100,000 and a million dollars put that much into the total pie. now let s talk about the group president obama is referring to when he talks about the
the folks at the brookings tax policy center helped us put this together. these different groups of popcorn represent your income level. the bigger the bag, the bigger the income level of the group we re talking about. i want to use the popcorn to demonstrate how much of the total pie, how much of the total tax revenue is generated by each group. let s start over here with the little one. these are people who earn less than $30,000 a year. that, by the way, is about 44.8% of all households in the united states. they don t pay a lot in income tax. in fact, generally speaking they get back 4.8%. i m going to put a few kernels into their pot because they are not paying taxes. let s look at another group. this bag represents people who earn between $30 and $100,000 a year. that s about 40% of households in the united states. this group represents a contribution of 18%. 18% of the total personal tax revenues come from here. i m going to put about two handfuls of popcorn in the bow
hastert. thank you for joining us today. thank you. ron, will romney be able to recover all these gaffes or will he have an enthusiasm problem. i think he ll recover these republicans. this is the product of a bruising primary where you had conservative republicans supporting rather evangelical republicans supporting rick santorum and he took the debate into a social conservative schematics while romney was on the economic part of the debate. you ll see republicans come home and because of the general election, there will be millions of dollars of spending by president obama and the mitt romney campaign and they re going to force these republicans to come to mitt romney s support.