{"id":196,"date":"2012-09-18T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2012-09-18T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:32:00","slug":"romneys-theory-of-the-taker-class-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Romney\u2019s theory of the \u201ctaker class,\u201d and why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/09\/17\/romneys-theory-of-the-taker-class-and-why-it-matters\/\">Romney\u2019s theory of the \u201ctaker class,\u201d and why it matters<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For what it\u2019s worth, this division of \u201cmakers\u201d and \u201ctakers\u201d isn\u2019t true. Among the Americans who<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/09\/17\/romney-my-job-is-not-to-worry-about-those-people\/\"> paid no federal income taxes in 2011<\/a>,  61 percent paid payroll taxes \u2014 which means they have jobs and, when  you account for both sides of the payroll tax, they paid 15.3 percent of  their income in taxes, which is higher than the 13.9 percent that  Romney paid. Another 22 percent were elderly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>So 83 percent of those not paying federal income taxes are either  working and paying payroll taxes or they\u2019re elderly and Romney is  promising to protect their benefits because they\u2019ve earned them. The  remainder, by and large, aren\u2019t paying federal income or payroll taxes  because they\u2019re unemployed. But that\u2019s a small fraction of the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney\u2019s theory of the \u201ctaker class,\u201d and why it matters For what it\u2019s worth, this division of \u201cmakers\u201d and \u201ctakers\u201d isn\u2019t true. Among the Americans who paid no federal income &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romney\u2019s theory of the \u201ctaker class,\u201d and why it matters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ayn-rand","category-contrarian-economics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}