{"id":5220,"date":"2012-09-18T20:09:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2012-09-18T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:09:05","slug":"we-are-the-99-not-just-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/we-are-the-99-not-just-47\/","title":{"rendered":"We are the 99%, not just 47%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why NM is a red state in this chart. As for all those who don\u2019t pay Federal Income tax (not at all the same as \u201cnon-taxpaying\u201d): Perhaps this is the South\u2019s revenge on the Union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2012\/09\/17\/fact-checked-romneys-47-of-non-taxpaying-americans-from-red-states\/\">Fact-Checked: Romney\u2019s \u201947%\u2019 Of Non-Taxpaying Americans From Red States | Addicting Info<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nonpayers.banner.taxfound.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/static\/mt\/assets\/politics\/nonpayers.banner.taxfound.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2012\/09\/17\/fact-checked-romneys-47-of-non-taxpaying-americans-from-red-states\/\">Fact-Checked: Romney\u2019s \u201947%\u2019 Of Non-Taxpaying Americans From Red States | Addicting Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/romneys-47percent-paying-no-taxes-combines-elderly-with-poor-workers\/2012\/09\/18\/7845ede0-01b6-11e2-bbf0-e33b4ee2f0e8_story.html\">Romney\u2019s 47% Paying No Taxes Combines Elderly With Poor Workers &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>By Richard Rubin, Updated: Tuesday, September 18, 6:00 PM Bloomberg<\/h5>\n<p>Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Elderly Americans and low-wage workers make up the bulk of those who don\u2019t pay income taxes, a group that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said are \u201cdependent on government\u201d and see themselves as \u201cvictims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For 2011, 46 percent of households didn\u2019t pay federal income taxes. About half of those didn\u2019t pay because of standard deductions and personal exemptions designed to exclude subsistence levels of income from taxation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/romneys-47percent-paying-no-taxes-combines-elderly-with-poor-workers\/2012\/09\/18\/7845ede0-01b6-11e2-bbf0-e33b4ee2f0e8_story.html\">Romney\u2019s 47% Paying No Taxes Combines Elderly With Poor Workers &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why NM is a red state in this chart. As for all those who don\u2019t pay Federal Income tax (not at all the same as \u201cnon-taxpaying\u201d): Perhaps this is the South\u2019s revenge on the Union. Fact-Checked: Romney\u2019s \u201947%\u2019 Of Non-Taxpaying Americans From Red States | Addicting Info Fact-Checked: Romney\u2019s \u201947%\u2019 Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/we-are-the-99-not-just-47\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We are the 99%, not just 47%<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}