Who said the following?
”Forty-seven percent of people today don’t pay any taxes. So let’s have a fair tax code where everybody pays their taxes.”
Answer: Linda McMahon on a local station last year.
But wait a minute; didn’t she just denounce Mitt Romney for criticizing the “47- percenters”, saying, “I couldn’t disagree more.” Didn't she just say most of them want to work, but Obama has failed to create jobs for them?
Linda McMahon can run, but she can’t hide… unless we allow her to pull the wool over our eyes. She doesn’t want us to know what she really plans to do if she is elected to the U.S. Senate. She is in the 1 percent and is for the “1-percenters” and wants a government by the 1-percenters and for the 1-percenters.
Who make up the 47% that Linda McMahon feels should be paying their fair share? Which people comprise the 47% who Mitt Romney believes expect to be taken care of?
In the most recent Forbes magazine, Howard Gleckman writes that the 47% include people who work 50 hours 6 days a week as home health aides. The total salary is too low to require her to pay taxes.
The 47% include college students who work 10 to 15 hours weekly. It includes elderly who worked all their lives and paid for the Social Security which they rely on to survive. It includes those in the military on active duty.
During her failed run against Senator Blumenthal, McMahon refused to support a middle class tax cut unless her 1-percenters also got a tax cut. When she talks about how we must stimulate the economy, she means giving tax cuts to those like herself, millionaires and billionaires. But those who struggle? Tax them.
Think about how many ways she is similar to Mitt Romney. It is truly frightening when a person who so badly wants to be our senator will say anything about her rival, Chris Murphy, and against the presidential candidate of her own party - even when she agrees with him; and why?
Can it possibly be obtain our votes, gain a seat in the United States Senate, and then violate the trust we placed in her words?
Republicans bring to the floor what I like to call a bit of freedom and Liberty. We do not need Government holding our hands as Ron Paul would say, " cradle to grave." If thats what you are looking for then vote Democratic. But I along with most individuals dont want OR need that. The Country is in a downward spiral. We need to stop subsidizing everything, taking handouts, bailing out all the big banks and corps and let them fail, naturally. Thats how Capitalism works. What is important right now is we concentrate on how to fix our debt problem. And the left is all about spending spending spending............If we keep an unbalanced legislature, we will be just like Zimbabwe was in 2005, where a loaf of bread costs a million dollars.
"when I say liberty, I do not simply mean what is referred to as "free enterprise." I mean liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts and live his own life as he desires to think and to live; the liberty of the family to decide how to wish to live, what they want to eat for breakfast and for dinner, and how they wish to spend their time;; liberty of man to develop his ideas and get other people to teach those ideas, libert of every local community to decide how it's children shall be educated, how it's local services shall be run an who it's leader shall be ; liberty of a man to run his own business as he thinks it ought to be run, as long a he does not interfere with the right of other people to do the same thing" Robert A Taft- Republican Suitors from Ron Pauls book " The Revolution " "This is the Republican tradition which I belong"- Ron Paul That is what we need to work in Andrew, do not abandon the Republican party.
Or maybe the Republicans were working for capitalism and against subsidizing everything when Bush gave us the largest expansion of welfare since Johnson? Was he working against subsidies when he pushed the bailouts through, threatening martial law if Congress didn't vote for them?
Good man. I will be voting for Gary Johnson as well. So will all of my family and friends.
Btw, did you live in mass for a while? I have an old friend with your same name
Nancy Benoit b. 1964 d. 2007 Daniel Benoit b. 2000 d. 2007 Mike "Crash Holly" Lockwood b. 1971 d. 2003 David "Davey Boy" Smith b. 1962 d. 2002 Eddie Guererro b. 1967 d. 2005 Randy "Macho Man" Savage b.1982 d. 2011 "Miss Elizabeth" b. 1960 d. 2003 Owen Hart b. 1965 d. 1999 "Ravishing Rick Rude" b. 1958 d. 1999 Andrew "Test" Martin b. 1975 d. 2009 Ray "Big Bossman" Traylor b. 1962 d. 2004 Linda McMahon is a user, an abuser, and a taker. She was the LARGEST employer of “Independent Contractors” (ie WWF SuperStars) in the State of Connecticut for over a decade. She offered her wrestlers NO insurance. NO benefits. Took NO taxes out of their pay. Paid NO Unemployment tax for them. Paid NO Medicare/Social Security tax for them. She DID NOT test for steroids or any other illicit substances, in fact, the use of steroids in the WWF/WWE was encouraged as it made the wrestlers bigger and badder, which brought sold more tickets, filled more seats, and sold more swag. When they couldn’t wrestle anymore she just let them go to live lonely lives of depression and isolation. She WILL do the same to YOU and the entire State of Connecticut. If you want to vote for her, go right ahead. My conscience prevents me from doing so as does my heart.
That aside, it simply isn't true. My vote literally means nothing, there is nothing to waste. The probability of all states other than CT being locked in an electoral college dead heat, while CT is locked in a popular dead heat minus my vote, is so low as to be laughable. You could run the election 10^10^10^10 times and it won't happen. So the idea that my vote will help reelect Obama (my liberal friends tell me it will help elect Romney, by the way - doesn't that cancel out?) is simply false. It will do nothing in terms of deciding the outcome. On the other hand, I can use my vote to make a statement. That statement can be "please continue on with the status quo, everything is going great" which is what I say when I vote R/D. Or it can be that I am deeply dissatisfied and this must change. Furthermore, in CT, it cost thousands of dollars to get ballot access for Johnson. With 1% of the vote, he will have it in 5 years. With 5% nationwide, his 2016 campaign will qualify for funding. I can make a difference there.
If a third party has no chance, it's because we've allowed that to come to pass. It's because we refuse to give them the chance. That aside, what do you mean by "take back?" As I said, the GOP has never been pro-freedom. Even the mythical "old right" was more about being pro-business than pro-freedom. So you can't mean take back, you must mean take. I suspect, based in large part on the Ron Paul travesty, that I have a greater chance of electing Gary Johnson President than you have of getting even a decent candidate through the GOP. It is a private organization whose leadership is unified against the idea. Primaries are, if it is possible, more corrupt than regular elections.