According
to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, 93% of the non-taxpaying
freeloading Americans earn $50K or less, 5% earn between $50K and
$100K, and the remaining 430,000 nonpayers earn more than $100K per
year. The last group includes about 4,000 households with annual
incomes in excess of $1M. In spite of what Mr. Romney said, I doubt
that all
of these “government dependent” people are going to vote for Mr.
Obama.
But lately there have
been signs that the group of people which the GOP considers unworthy
of consideration is much larger than the 47% group. For example, in
honor of the Labor Day holiday, Eric Cantor, the house majority
leader, sent out the following Tweet: “Today, we celebrate those
who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their
own success.”
This would come as a
surprise to Matthew Maguire, who first proposed the holiday in 1882
while serving as the secretary of the Central Labor Union of New
York, or Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor, who
also proposed the holiday about the same time. In 1894, just six days
after the deaths of a number of workers (not owners) during the
Pullman Strike at the hands of U.S. Law Enforcement officials, Labor
Day became a national holiday.
Apparently Mr. Cantor,
a leader of the party, would forget laborers in order to honor
business owners.
Mr. Romney himself gave
an insight into the party thinking in his nomination acceptance
speech. In speaking of immigrants, Mr. Romney said, “They came not
just in pursuit of the riches of this world but for the richness of
this life. . . And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own
hands.” Apparently, if they came just to earn a living, they don't
deserve recognition.
It
appears that the underlying party belief is that only business
owners, officers and entreprenuers deserve commendation. Forget the
workers.
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