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Donationness 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. the romneys then limited their deductions. they paid at least 13% in each of the last ten years. just so everyone s clear, they picked a rate that they needed to hit and then they didn t take their deductions. kevin, you re shaking your head. as a conservative, i would find this deeply offensive. well, i m really upset that romney has not come around to the williamson creed which is that tax evasion is a form of patriotism. you should be running the campaign. not only is this guy willingly paying his taxes, he s paying more taxes than he has to pay. one of the few things that romney ever said that made me happy about him as a candidate. if i was paying more taxes, then i wouldn t make much of a president. i agreed with him on that. why are you throwing mona way? i like the fact that on a typical year he makes about, you know, barack obama s net worth ....
Republican u.s. senate candidates this year who want to eliminate the election of the u.s. senate. this is a reality. skepticism about democracy. right. but at the same time, this is a party that has lived on the strength of its support from poor people. 38% of john mccain s voters were folks who made well under $30,000 a year. very much the 47% types. right. and, in fact, mitt romney is running weaker among these people this year, about 34% in some polling. this is one of the big swing groups in american politics. poor people swing. in 2010 when republicans did very well, their republican numbers were way up. the fact of the matter is, romney s doing very dangerous politics here. forget about ideology. this is dangerous politics. you start to drive even a portion of that away from you, you start to create big democratic one thing i would add is poor white people swing. poor black people do not ....
well, you know, the conversation here is i think he needs to take cues from other hip-hop artists in terms of our culture. they can be gaudy. they flaunt what they have, cars, and still are able to communicate to people who are not at their level or will never reach their level, that they believe in them that i m the same as you. i came from that. they came from that. there s been an upward trajectory in the start of a lot of hip-hop stars and a lot of people. mitt romney also in that tape he talks about being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he admits it straight up. that s great to be honest. there s a lot of honesty on that tape. he s never had to struggle for anything ever. right. right. i think that that s the thing. that s the thing that makes him different from donald trump, from a rap mogul, that makes him different from most americans. can i just sum this up? with rap artist, they are flamboyant, gaudy perhaps, but ....
my favorite novels is infinite guest and his line is, tell me what sort of man you like and i ll pretend to be that sort of man. this is what he tells women all the time. romney is kind of that guy as a presidential candidate. whatever crowd he s in front of, he s very sort of malleable in terms of his rhetoric. i think what he did in this situation was con flad two things. there s about half of the population that doesn t pay any federal income tax. there s half the population that is some level dependent on government subsidies or entitlemen entitlements. those are two different things. not the same group of people. there s overlap. there s also a third group. conflated three groups. people that are independent in terms of what you said, government subsidies. subsidized student loans. we re talking about people who get a household check from the government, social security, medicare. income tax credit, disability. that are earned benefits. earned benefits. i don t kno ....
Who will screw me. which of these candidates is out to get me. who s dangerous? who s dangerous to me? that s why i think mitt romney has had a lot of problems. this is maybe just one of them. he s been unable to create a mess same and doesn t want to create a message because he s writing off those voters. let me say this. what s interesting about the discussion we re having, how voters self-identify and how useful of an analytical tool these clat categories are whether it s makers/takers distinction, whether it s the white working class, which is an analytical category we use on the left a lot. we sort of ring our hands over how do we no, i m seriously. magically recall the 30. there s a whole literature, how do we lose the white working class. what s interesting, this has been a terrible week for mitt romney. structurally i think if you ask anyone, if you held the election tonight who would win? barack obama would win, right? ....