No it's wrong all the way around.
There are 47% who don't pay income tax but that includes retired Social Security recipients who tend to be Republican and many others. It was stupid to categorize them this way.
The 47% who don't pay income tax are different from the % who are on the gov't dole.
The % that are on the Gov't dole is not any where near 47% unless you include Social Security and Medicare Recipients.
Romney sounds like Coach Watson used to sound when he was head coach of Vanderbilt. They'd have a pre-game interview and Coach Watson would have 6 reasons ready why Vanderbilt was at a disadvantage. And the game wasn't even started. There's no wonder he had a terrible record.
You’re just repeating exactly what I said was the one slight inaccuracy in his statement. The 47% figure doesn’t match up exactly what Democrat voters and those not paying taxes, as I said. Everything else he said was true. If you take out the 47% figure and replace it with “many people” then there’s no debating it’s accurate.
And, yes, he is including SS and Medicare recipients in the bunch who the message of “low taxes” will not resonate with. Many of those people are part of the problem. They would not let George W. Bush reform Social Security to be a sustainable, privatized program for young people. They are mooching off the younger taxpayers by bleeding the program dry and refusing to let us reform it for ourselves. They are the people McCain talked about who are charging up the credit card and sticking their grandkids with the bill.
And, no, they aren’t “entitled” to SS and Medicare just because they paid something into it. The programs are going broke because not enough money was paid in to cover the expenditures. They’re being sent checks that are above and beyond the value that they paid in. So when they refuse to let us reform these programs for futur sustainability, I hold them accountable as moochers of the younger generations.