Linda McMahon
Mitt Romney is getting excoriated for saying that he doesn’t care for 47 percent of Americans, who he claims don’t pay taxes and just want government favors.
But Romney isn’t the only candidate who voters should be enraged at for parroting the “47 Percent Lie.” Last year, Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon parroted the same lie during a conversation with a local news station:
MCMAHON:Ai??I’d like to see everyone pay their fair share. Forty-seven percent of the people today don’t pay any taxes, so let’s have a fair tax code where everybody pays their taxes
Watch McMahon’s remarks (they start at about a minute in):
McMahon launches second Senate campaign
The line that 47 percent of the country doesn’t pay taxes is just the latest in a long line of deceptive right-wing talking points.
It is true thatAi??47 percentAi??of Americans did not pay net federal income taxes in 2009 ai??i?? the number is unusually high because of the depression in incomes following the recession, and a large chunk of it is also senior citizens who do not have an income to pay taxes on Ai??ai??i?? but it is completely false that only 53 percent of Americans pay taxes.
For example, in terms of state and local taxes, the working poor actually pay a higher percentage of their income in these taxesAi??in every stateAi??except for Vermont. In ai???Alabama, for example, low-income families (which make less than $13,000) pay 11 percent of their income in state and local taxes, while those making more than $229,000Ai??pay just 4 percent.ai???
McMahon should be held accountable for touting this lie that Romney just recently used to bash poor and working-class Americans — and so should any other candidate who says the same thing.
She is just another typical lying, racist, bigoted republican!!!!!!!! Like all republicans she never let the facts get in the way of their lies!!! A perosn can’t pay federal income taxes if they don’t make enough money!!! Of course many big businesses and millionaires DON’T PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAXES EITHER BECAUSE OF THE TAX LAWS WRITTEN BY BIG BUSINESS AND MILLIIOAIRES!!! DID ROMNEY PAY ANY INCOME TAXES IN THE PAST TEN YEARS???? ROMNEY WHERE ARE YOUR INCOME TAX RETURNS??????
Does she know the ‘moochers’ and ‘freeloaders’ include ROMNY himself and 1,469 other MILLIONAIRES? and that Combat Troops are included?
see TAXDODGING MILLIONAIRES of 2009: http://tinyurl.com/9fbhpf9
and ‘Finally, the REAL reason Romney didn’t mention the troops in his speech’ http://tinyurl.com/8urf5np
THEN there’s this too: Romney’s election chances depend on states with the largest count of people he considers freeloaders http://tinyurl.com/9g9sy24
MAP included here for ‘low info’ voters.
Linda likes the number 47…she made $47 million dollars last year and I wonder what percentage tax she paid???
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