This 53% business is very clever, because it is basically a way to trick people into throwing their lot in with the 1% when their real interests lie with the 99%. Pointing out who pays income taxes and who doesn't is a way of praying on the frustration--the very understandable frustration--that people feel when they are worked 40+ hours at a job they hate for a boss they hate so they can barely afford nice things that they hardly every get to enjoy and then look around and realize that other people have some of those nice things without having to satisfy a boss they hate and work unreasonable hours at a job they hate. Of course that pisses people off, and we on the left are idiots when we pretend that it doesn't. Let's forget for a moment that there are a lot of taxes to pay besides income tax, and the "47%" pay those. Instead, consider the following:b
A) 1% gets rich off this arrangement at the expense of the "53%." Think about it. When someone buys a flat screen TV with your tax money, where do you think that money is ending up? Huh?
B) The people on the nations welfare role want to change this arrangement, and want to work, whereas the 1% is "conservative" AKA doesn't want anything to change. Because the welfare state that is oppressing you, 53%er, is also oppressing the people who do not happen to pay income tax.
A) 1% gets rich off this arrangement at the expense of the "53%." Think about it. When someone buys a flat screen TV with your tax money, where do you think that money is ending up? Huh?
B) The people on the nations welfare role want to change this arrangement, and want to work, whereas the 1% is "conservative" AKA doesn't want anything to change. Because the welfare state that is oppressing you, 53%er, is also oppressing the people who do not happen to pay income tax.
