The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Figures don't lie but liars............

    By Flavius on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 11:00pm |

    Brad Delong, today.

     

     

    Those of us who know the numbers, or who simply live in America and look around, know that the 47 percent who aren’t paying federal income taxes this year are by and large not “moochers.” About a fifth are elderly retired. About two-thirds are in households with incomes of less than $20,000 a year—definitely not living high. And nearly one-third owe no income taxes because of the earned-income and child tax credits, which both became law with bipartisan support.

    As a group, the 47 percent who pay no income taxes do not lack work ethic. They do take personal responsibility for their lives. They may not pay federal income taxes this year, but they pay plenty of sales, property, and payroll taxes. For the most part, they do not constitute the Democratic base. More than half of the 47 percent are the elderly white and Southern white voters who voted for Romney by substantial margins.

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    Delong was responding to a book by Nicholas Eberstadt. He ,Delong, begins by saying that those of us "who simply live in America and look around" know the 47% are not moochers.

    I decided to look up Eberstadt.Phillips Exeter Academy, London School of Economics, Harvard, American Enterprise Insitute. Wife employed at the Hoover Institute.

    Yup. Not much living in and looking around the America that he writes books about.

     

     

     


    by Flavius on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 9:49am

    The moochers are the captains of industry who steal hundreds of billions of dollars from the Federal Government after 'investing' so many hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

    And we do nothing about it.

    Just look at dick cheney. His firm took in a hundred billion dollars due to a war based upon false premises.

    Many of us have our own definition of the term 'moocher'. ha


    by Richard Day on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 5:08pm

    Agree.

    I guess I should acknowledge that a very long  time ago I was a "Captain of Industry"-I ran a  company you would have heard of.  

    That doesn't cause me to dispute your description . Altho I knew a few exceptions.Very few. 


    by Flavius on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 11:50pm