Frum has been railing against the Romney remarks since they were revealed Monday afternoon in an online video released by the liberal magazine Mother Jones. Romney told high-rollers in Florida in May that the 47% of Americans who don't pay federal income tax consider themselves "victims," depend on the government and are “unwilling to take responsibility for their lives.”
“In the middle of the worst recession, jobs and economy, since the 1930s,” Frum said, “to offer people who are out of work insults … that is a destructive way to think.”
“Let’s remember if the 47% are the people who don’t pay income tax, a
lot of those people are Republicans,” Frum continued. “A fifth of them are retirees, one of the strongest Republican constituencies in the country, and they don’t pay income tax because Social Security is not taxed. They paid income tax through their lives.”
Frum said Romney would be hurt by forcing Americans into two camps, based on whether they paid federal income taxes. “There are a lot of people on Wall Street who paid a lot of income tax who yet managed to do more damage to the finances of the United States, by bad financial decisions, than they will be able to repay, even if they make a billion dollars a year.”
Frum also vented his dismay on Twitter, saying he depended on government “to protect my property and uphold my contracts.” He asked: “I’m a maker and a taker too. You?”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,2666239.story
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