During the campaign, Mitt Romney was caught on tape telling donors that there were 47% of the public who paid no income taxes, who were (he assumed) net recipients of government largesse, and who therefore would back President Obama no matter what. Ironically, it was Romney who would get 47% of the vote, in part because he was wrong about who President Obama's core supporters really were. As I pointed out at the time, an awful lot of the folks who pay no income tax (but who
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Guilt-Free Affluence
During the campaign, Mitt Romney was caught on tape telling donors that there were 47% of the public who paid no income taxes, who were (he assumed) net recipients of government largesse, and who therefore would back President Obama no matter what. Ironically, it was Romney who would get 47% of the vote, in part because he was wrong about who President Obama's core supporters really were. As I pointed out at the time, an awful lot of the folks who pay no income tax (but who