According to d'Sousa, the original contention wasn't even that 47% didn't pay federal personal income tax, it's a bit more technical than that in fact, but it's being misused ~ and quite knowledgeably by Democrat agents.
So, let's say somebody's not on welfare ~ and they are down to their last $100 earned at a job. They've lost their job. The baby needs milk. They need some nutrition themselves so they buy day old bread, date expired lunchmeat, and some canned beans.
Their last $10 goes for a blue tarp so they can live in the woods.
They don't pay any federal income taxes at that point ~ according to the Romney ad hoc codicil they immediately become a hard core Democrat voter and can simply be ignored in this campaign.
I don't agree!
Might I suggest that some of you guys are suffering from a sort of psychological break that should be looked into!
I was simply responding to your statement:
“There is no evidence whatsoever in your contention that there are people who pay no taxes whatsoever ~ that wasn’t true even in Communist Albania ~ everybody’s got a tax and they collect it one way or the other ~ it’s a fact of life on planet Earth.”
Nothing else.
My point is that statement is false. People who earn nothing pay nothing. There are a significant number of people who do absolutely nothing and are eating just fine and have shelter, etc provided entirely by others hard work, not their own.
The taxes collected from these people were not actually paid by by them. They never did anything to earn a dime of it and therefore “pay” nothing in any real sense of the word.