[kabar]

This will be a tough thing to fight. The Dems are going to pounce on it in order administer a knockout blow. Many of those 47% may not pay income taxes, but they are working and pay SS and Medicare taxes. The MSM will make a big deal out of this.

Obama has said some outrageous things to donors that never got the traction it deserved, e.g., clinging to their guns, bible, etc. Hopefully, the Romney campaign will remind people of those statements, which unfortunately were not captured on vidoe but they were captured on audio.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The MSM would make a big deal out of Mitt wearing different colored socks on either foot, while giving Barry a pass if he killed, cooked and ate a girl scout in the Rose Garden. It is what it is.

[FredZarguna]

SS and Medicare withholding are not taxes. They are contributions to Federal Insurance Programs (that's what "FICA" means.) The promise and expectation is that you will receive that entitlement when your time is due: no one but John Roberts (and liberals) is confused that contributions to a public pension and a public old-age health-care fund are taxes. They aren't, and it's time to stop pretending they are. When you pay into a fund, and eventually get your money back, that isn't a tax.

The 47% of Americans who pay no actual taxes are deadbeats, and it's time they started paying. We need to have this debate; we need to find out what kind of country this is. It's time to stop running from it.