ignorance of the facts. 47% of americans pay no income tax. so our message of low taxes doesn t connect. he ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. i mean, that s what they sell every four years. and so my job is not to worry about those people. they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. i ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility? you see, to governor romney, one whole half of this country is made up of takers to him. 47% of the country is getting away scot-free. too bad the facts don t line up with that. look at this chart. among the households that didn t pay income tax last year, 61% paid payroll tax. these people aren t free-loaders. they have jobs. they re contributing. these folks paid over 15% of their income in taxes.
in over three decades. anncr: and here s where we are today. thirty months of private sector job growth. creating 4.6 million new jobs. we re not there yet. but the real question is: whose plan is better for you? the president s plan asks millionaires. to pay a little more. to help invest in a strong middle class. clean energy. and cut the deficit. mitt romney s plan? a new 250,000 dollar tax break for. multi-millionaires. roll back regulations on the banks that cratered the economy. and raise taxes on the middle class. president clinton: they want to go back to the same old. policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we re not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward.
poll came out this morning saying president obama and governor romney are in a statistical heat so i m not sure where you re getting an nbc poll that just came out minutes ago. well, it s an nbc poll. different polls say different things. the video that leaked, although it s a bump in the road for the campaign, my impression of this is this is very inside baseball. something we re talking about as pundits. i don t think the average american coming home worry being their job is caring about, you know, some ineloquent words governor romney said during a fund-raiser. tad, do you think let s put aside this new nbc/wall street journal poll. it s not just nbc. put that aside. do you think people that are coming home from work, struggled, tried to put ends together, may be in that 47%, do you think they d like to be labeled as someone that won t take responsibility for their
spending and taxes. he wants to ban abortion rights and same-sex marriage and legalize the largest gun magazines a human being can carry. oh, yeah, he wants to kiss off anyone in the bottom half of the american income stream as long as it butters up the top. there is of course one powerful significant alternative interpretation. it is that what mitt romney said about the haves and what he considers the moochers is exactly what he thinks. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. politicsnation with al sharpton starts right now. thanks, chris. thanks to you for tuning in. tonight s lead no apology. more fallout from the secret romney tapes and his campaign scrambles to contain the damage from even new revelations from that undercover video. the tapes show his stunning true feelings about nearly half of the american people. late today, a defiant romney went on fox news to defend his views.
telemundo last night praising his campaign. i have a terrific campaign. my senior campaign people work extraordinarily well together. i work well with them. our campaign is doing well. so, no changes in your campaign? no, i ve got a good team. i mean, accept what you re saying he could turn it around in seven weeks, he first has to not be in denial and see he has a problem. i agree. these are not just gaffes. when your father ran in 08, he didn t have any of this stuff. this guy is in denial. all campaigns have problems. to be on a campaign is in the midst of chaos. i agree with tad, what he said earlier. governor romney has to look at who these leakers are, people being disloyal and he must get rid of them immediately because that will be the fatality in his campaign unless he gets rid of them. he also needs to gets a good mirror because a lot of what he s facing he caused. a lot of these wounds are self-inflicted.