{"id":2341,"date":"2011-10-27T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2023-11-02T21:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:18:58","slug":"chart-of-the-day-these-are-the-47-percent-tpmdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2011\/10\/27\/chart-of-the-day-these-are-the-47-percent-tpmdc\/","title":{"rendered":"CHART OF THE DAY: These Are The 47 Percent | TPMDC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans like to villainize those who aren&#8217;t paying income tax. I mean, not the rich billionaires who don&#8217;t because they have unscrupulous accountants. No, I mean the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/10\/chart-of-the-day-these-are-the-47-percent.php?ref=fpa\">the elderly, the poor, those in college<\/a>. Those who contribute sale taxes, payroll taxes, or either have contributed or are going to once they get a degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"459\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-1.png?resize=625%2C459&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-1.png?w=662&amp;ssl=1 662w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-1.png?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-1.png?resize=624%2C458&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basically, folks who are part of society rather than abusing it without paying for their take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s what this is all about. I doubt very few of the Occupy Wall Street folks are against making money. They certainly aren&#8217;t against paying for a system that allows you to get rich, contrary to FAUXNews and other conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are there some socialists in the mix? Damn right. How much of Europe operates under a socialist idea that you can make up to a certain amount and after that, the taxes hike up considerably? Many of the more prosperous nations do so. Hell, the US used to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Profit with responsibility. If you aren&#8217;t paying for the roads and rails that help you ship goods, you aren&#8217;t doing right by your community. If you don&#8217;t pay for the navy protecting your oil tankers or the army fighting for resource access, you are cheating the society that lets you get rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There used to be responsibility and a sense of shame over not doing your part. Now there is a political party that will let you off the hook on all of that, which them damns poor people for not giving more than they already have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shameful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans like to villainize those who aren&#8217;t paying income tax. I mean, not the rich billionaires who don&#8217;t because they have unscrupulous accountants. No, I mean the\u00a0the elderly, the poor, those in college. Those who contribute sale taxes, payroll taxes, or either have contributed or are going to once they get a degree. Basically, folks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiscal-stupidity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}