Donald Trump says “fifty percent” of Americans are lazy freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything”

[edthecynic]

I've got an idea. Why don't you and Hillary get that 50% to pay federal taxes so they will have some money for infrastructure. After all, they are using the infrastructure for free and the rest of us are paying for them.

Except they ARE paying federal taxes! All but the top-earning 20% of American families pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes, according to a Treasury Department analysis.

I was being sarcastic. Matthew wants federal spending for infrastructure in almost every post. Payroll taxes don't pay for one cent worth of federal infrastructure that everyone uses.

Payroll taxes go into the general fund and pay for everything the government pays for.

 

[Oldstyle]

Donald Trump says “fifty percent” of Americans are lazy freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything”
By Daily News Bin | September 13, 2016 | 8
Donald Trump says “fifty percent” of Americans are lazy freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything”

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So much for Donald Trump’s attempt to paint Hillary Clinton as being divisive because she referred to half of his supporters (roughly twenty percent of voters, and a far lower percentage of the overall population) as being in a “basket of deplorables.” It turns out Trump himself has thrown half the country under the bus with his own words, writing them off as being freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything” because the other half of the country is carrying them.


Whereas Mitt Romney was famously caught writing off “47%” of Americans as being lazy bums during a speech at a private event which was subsequently leaked on video, Donald Trump bizarrely made his remark on television. He told Fox News host Sean Hannity back in June of last year that “The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

What a nasty piece of shit this man is. I guardanfuckingtee that a lot of the lower 50% pay state taxes, sales tax and property taxes and most of them work for a goddamn living. What a scum bag! What's even nastier is the reality that parasites like Trump take most of the goddamn wealth that many of the workers in that lower 50% should be getting and fucks them over.

Please god don't do this to America! I beg of you.

Why is it every time one of you Clinton supporters reports on what Donald Trump supposedly "said"...it's never what he REALLY said?

“The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

That's what Trump said. He didn't call anyone "lazy freeloaders". That was your interpretation of what he said. He's simply pointing out that we're reaching a tipping point where more people are taking out of the system then are putting in. That's not sustainable.

 

[Meathead]

Donald Trump says “fifty percent” of Americans are lazy freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything”
By Daily News Bin | September 13, 2016 | 8
Donald Trump says “fifty percent” of Americans are lazy freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything”

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So much for Donald Trump’s attempt to paint Hillary Clinton as being divisive because she referred to half of his supporters (roughly twenty percent of voters, and a far lower percentage of the overall population) as being in a “basket of deplorables.” It turns out Trump himself has thrown half the country under the bus with his own words, writing them off as being freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything” because the other half of the country is carrying them.


Whereas Mitt Romney was famously caught writing off “47%” of Americans as being lazy bums during a speech at a private event which was subsequently leaked on video, Donald Trump bizarrely made his remark on television. He told Fox News host Sean Hannity back in June of last year that “The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

What a nasty piece of shit this man is. I guardanfuckingtee that a lot of the lower 50% pay state taxes, sales tax and property taxes and most of them work for a goddamn living. What a scum bag! What's even nastier is the reality that parasites like Trump take most of the goddamn wealth that many of the workers in that lower 50% should be getting and fucks them over.

Please god don't do this to America! I beg of you.

Trump's actual statement was a variation of Thatcher's observation that socialism is great till you run out of other people's money. SPOT ON

 

[edthecynic]

Why is it every time one of you Clinton supporters reports on what Donald Trump supposedly "said"...it's never what he REALLY said?

“The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

That's what Trump said. He didn't call anyone "lazy freeloaders". That was your interpretation of what he said. He's simply pointing out that we're reaching a tipping point where more people are taking out of the system then are putting in. That's not sustainable.

Seems like a very accurate paraphrase of what Trump said. Certainly more accurate than any time the Right paraphrases Clinton!!!

 

[Meathead]

Donald Trump says “fifty percent” of Americans are lazy freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything”
By Daily News Bin | September 13, 2016 | 8
Donald Trump says “fifty percent” of Americans are lazy freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything”

FacebookTwitterGoogle

So much for Donald Trump’s attempt to paint Hillary Clinton as being divisive because she referred to half of his supporters (roughly twenty percent of voters, and a far lower percentage of the overall population) as being in a “basket of deplorables.” It turns out Trump himself has thrown half the country under the bus with his own words, writing them off as being freeloaders who “don’t have to do anything” because the other half of the country is carrying them.


Whereas Mitt Romney was famously caught writing off “47%” of Americans as being lazy bums during a speech at a private event which was subsequently leaked on video, Donald Trump bizarrely made his remark on television. He told Fox News host Sean Hannity back in June of last year that “The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

What a nasty piece of shit this man is. I guardanfuckingtee that a lot of the lower 50% pay state taxes, sales tax and property taxes and most of them work for a goddamn living. What a scum bag! What's even nastier is the reality that parasites like Trump take most of the goddamn wealth that many of the workers in that lower 50% should be getting and fucks them over.

Please god don't do this to America! I beg of you.

Here's Meathead's statement, and you can quote me on this.

GET A FUCKING JOB AND STOP BEING A PARASITE!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

 

[Oldstyle]

Why is it every time one of you Clinton supporters reports on what Donald Trump supposedly "said"...it's never what he REALLY said?

“The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

That's what Trump said. He didn't call anyone "lazy freeloaders". That was your interpretation of what he said. He's simply pointing out that we're reaching a tipping point where more people are taking out of the system then are putting in. That's not sustainable.

Seems like a very accurate paraphrase of what Trump said. Certainly more accurate than any time the Right paraphrases Clinton!!!

No, it's a paraphrase designed to make Trump appear to call people "lazy free loaders" when what he's correctly pointing out is that our society rewards ambition less and less with each passing year and it's not sustainable.

 

[Meathead]

I'll help you. Lots of blacks so lots of freeloaders in the South. Not that difficult.

 

[HenryBHough]

So long as it's not 51% America still has a chance.

 

[Oldstyle]

When you have people demanding a "living wage" whether people work or not...it's not a concept that encourages innovation and hard work...it's a concept that encourages "sitting back".

 

[boilermaker55]

Could be!
But "the donald' really is a fake and fraud.

Well now that must be the half who are in the basket of deplorables, huh?

 

[TooTall]

I've got an idea. Why don't you and Hillary get that 50% to pay federal taxes so they will have some money for infrastructure. After all, they are using the infrastructure for free and the rest of us are paying for them.

Except they ARE paying federal taxes! All but the top-earning 20% of American families pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes, according to a Treasury Department analysis.

I was being sarcastic. Matthew wants federal spending for infrastructure in almost every post. Payroll taxes don't pay for one cent worth of federal infrastructure that everyone uses.

Payroll taxes go into the general fund and pay for everything the government pays for.

Has that changed in the last 5 years

"Various payroll taxes are withheld from an employee’s wages. The rates for Social Security taxes and Medicare taxes in 2011 are 4.2 percent and 1.45 percent, respectively. These taxes are used to pay for the federal programs: They are credited to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, and the employee is credited with having paid into both.

Next is federal income tax, which is deposited into the U.S. Treasury general fund when the employer pays the withholding to the IRS. Employees are credited with the amount withheld against their federal income-tax liability when they file Form 1040."

 

[boilermaker55]

Trump/Pence both a couple of ass-wipes
TP
Report: Trump likely violated the law when he used charity money to pay off fines for his for-profit operations
Report: Trump likely violated the law when he used charity money to pay off fines for his for-profit operations

 

[edthecynic]

Why is it every time one of you Clinton supporters reports on what Donald Trump supposedly "said"...it's never what he REALLY said?

“The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

That's what Trump said. He didn't call anyone "lazy freeloaders". That was your interpretation of what he said. He's simply pointing out that we're reaching a tipping point where more people are taking out of the system then are putting in. That's not sustainable.

Seems like a very accurate paraphrase of what Trump said. Certainly more accurate than any time the Right paraphrases Clinton!!!

No, it's a paraphrase designed to make Trump appear to call people "lazy free loaders" when what he's correctly pointing out is that our society rewards ambition less and less with each passing year and it's not sustainable.

Sorry, but lazy freeloaders was NOT in quotes!!!!!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Alot of this bottom 50% are the working class that includes republicans.

 

[TooTall]

Why is it every time one of you Clinton supporters reports on what Donald Trump supposedly "said"...it's never what he REALLY said?

“The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

That's what Trump said. He didn't call anyone "lazy freeloaders". That was your interpretation of what he said. He's simply pointing out that we're reaching a tipping point where more people are taking out of the system then are putting in. That's not sustainable.

Seems like a very accurate paraphrase of what Trump said. Certainly more accurate than any time the Right paraphrases Clinton!!!

No, it's a paraphrase designed to make Trump appear to call people "lazy free loaders" when what he's correctly pointing out is that our society rewards ambition less and less with each passing year and it's not sustainable.

Sorry, but lazy freeloaders was NOT in quotes!!!!!

That means it was just taken out of his ass.

 

[Oldstyle]

Why is it every time one of you Clinton supporters reports on what Donald Trump supposedly "said"...it's never what he REALLY said?

“The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry — and it’s unfair to them — but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

That's what Trump said. He didn't call anyone "lazy freeloaders". That was your interpretation of what he said. He's simply pointing out that we're reaching a tipping point where more people are taking out of the system then are putting in. That's not sustainable.

Seems like a very accurate paraphrase of what Trump said. Certainly more accurate than any time the Right paraphrases Clinton!!!

No, it's a paraphrase designed to make Trump appear to call people "lazy free loaders" when what he's correctly pointing out is that our society rewards ambition less and less with each passing year and it's not sustainable.

Sorry, but lazy freeloaders was NOT in quotes!!!!!

No shit! Yet that was Matthew's take on what Trump said! It's what Clinton supporters do with everything Trump says.

 

[edthecynic]

I've got an idea. Why don't you and Hillary get that 50% to pay federal taxes so they will have some money for infrastructure. After all, they are using the infrastructure for free and the rest of us are paying for them.

Except they ARE paying federal taxes! All but the top-earning 20% of American families pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes, according to a Treasury Department analysis.

I was being sarcastic. Matthew wants federal spending for infrastructure in almost every post. Payroll taxes don't pay for one cent worth of federal infrastructure that everyone uses.

Payroll taxes go into the general fund and pay for everything the government pays for.

Has that changed in the last 5 years

"Various payroll taxes are withheld from an employee’s wages. The rates for Social Security taxes and Medicare taxes in 2011 are 4.2 percent and 1.45 percent, respectively. These taxes are used to pay for the federal programs: They are credited to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, and the employee is credited with having paid into both.

Next is federal income tax, which is deposited into the U.S. Treasury general fund when the employer pays the withholding to the IRS. Employees are credited with the amount withheld against their federal income-tax liability when they file Form 1040."

Oopsy!
And there is no SS lock box because Gore never became president.

 

[Oldstyle]

Alot of this bottom 50% are the working class that includes republicans.

But more of that bottom 50% are the "non working class" that is predominantly Democratic.

 

[Iceweasel]

I've got an idea. Why don't you and Hillary get that 50% to pay federal taxes so they will have some money for infrastructure. After all, they are using the infrastructure for free and the rest of us are paying for them.

Except they ARE paying federal taxes! All but the top-earning 20% of American families pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes, according to a Treasury Department analysis.

I was being sarcastic. Matthew wants federal spending for infrastructure in almost every post. Payroll taxes don't pay for one cent worth of federal infrastructure that everyone uses.

Payroll taxes go into the general fund and pay for everything the government pays for.

Has that changed in the last 5 years

"Various payroll taxes are withheld from an employee’s wages. The rates for Social Security taxes and Medicare taxes in 2011 are 4.2 percent and 1.45 percent, respectively. These taxes are used to pay for the federal programs: They are credited to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, and the employee is credited with having paid into both.

Next is federal income tax, which is deposited into the U.S. Treasury general fund when the employer pays the withholding to the IRS. Employees are credited with the amount withheld against their federal income-tax liability when they file Form 1040."

Oopsy!
And there is no SS lock box because Gore never became president.

Gore would have kept the lid on the SS trust funds?