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In reply to the discussion: As this Romney "Paid no taxes" Scandal Develops, [View all]KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)I just dealt with a Paulbot who believes all government is waste and evil (he kept spelling it waist...I didn't have the heart to play grammar cop) and how corporate welfare and greed isn't a problem. I asked him if he paid taxes last year and a general percentage of his income. He said he paid about 25%...and the only deduction he has is his little house that's seen its value plummet over the past 4 years while his mortgage payments have more than doubled. And he thinks government is the problem? I asked him what he thought of someone who earned more paying less...and, amazingly, he believe that the rich "earn" and are "entitled" to paying less. Of course I asked him why those "job creators" hadn't created jobs during the boooosh years or what about running two wars for corporate profit on the credit card that led to today's defecit and you could hear a forest of crickets. As I say, there's a portion of this country truly stuck on stupid.
Cheers...