AFL-CIO Now

09/18/2012; Donna Jablonski

Just who was Mitt Romney referring to in his secretly recorded comments at a Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser as people who don’t “take personal responsibility and care for themselves”?

• 61 percent of them work but don’t earn enough to owe income tax.
• 17 percent are students (who will pay plenty of taxes once they’re out of school), military families, people with disabilities and people who have lost their jobs—including victims of outsourcers like, well, Mitt Romney.
• 22 percent are elderly.

(Data source: www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3505#_ftn9.) Continue reading “Mitt, Meet the 47%”