Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
Tim,
Your correct many unions are funding this as well as George Soros sure some private money gets dumped in but extreme left wingers are loving this group. Why? It supports their class warfare against Wall Street millionaires and private sector millionaires who they feel don't give enough to this country...of course they don't address the 40%-48% of Americans who pay nothing or very little.... they just drank the koolaid of obamy who has been attacking wealthy folks for years.
But I believe some of the supporters are starting to distance themselves as this turns into a crime after crime being committed by thugs rally. The message I heard the most is they want fair pay and are upset with the present system of going to college, building large student loan debt and then coming out to get a job only to find there isn't one waiting for them.
So since they feel they have been mislead they are upset and now demand someone (you and me) bail them out. Many other ideas and complaints have popped up but that's because they are grabbing at straws trying to find something that will stick.
DJD

Let me be one of those "extreme left wingers" as you call them and address the 40-48% of folks who "pay nothing or very little"

Very true that these folks do not pay federal income taxes--these folks either use legal deductions (the same way you or I or anybody else on this board does) or they simply dont make enough money to qualify to pay fed income tax--a decient percentage of these folks use the earned income tax credit which allows them to not pay income tax--the earned income credit was started by Gerald Ford if i remember right and then expanded upon by Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush to help children, working poor and the elderly who make up most of the 48%

These people who dont pay income taxes will still pay around 40% of their total income in taxes give or take a few points--these folks dont pay fed income tax but they end up paying a higher percentage of there income in state, local and other taxes than someone making several hundred thousand or millions a year--if you compare total taxes paid yearly for someone making $20000 a year and someone making $500000 a year they will both pay around 40% give or take a few points

Not all of us left wingers like koolaid either--Im a tea drinker myself