Obama To Romney: 'There Are A Whole Bunch Of Millionaires Who Aren't Paying Taxes At All Either'

And as I said, payroll taxes are just one of many taxes (such as state and local or excise fees like gas taxes) that the 47% pay, and which tend to have a regressive impact that hits poorer Americans harder.  

Do you think that poor people have too much money?  Meet the people you're talking about.

The reason people don't pay federal income taxes in this country is mostly because of deductions and exemptions in the tax code.  Mainly that's been a preferred Republican way of legislating social policy, to reward work and reward childbearing and education (Democrats have done it, too, but it was championed by Republicans over time).  

Republicans have had an anti-tax brand.  They like to be seen for cutting taxes and against raising taxes, but they really only believe that for upper income people.  Republican budgets like Romney's and like the Republican budgets in the states don't ignore the poor: They target the poor for higher taxes.  The Republican approach to poverty is to say the poor have too much money and the government has to fix that by taking some money away from them.  

It's a Republican policy more broadly for the whole country that people who have less money are not paying enough in taxes, and Republicans (and apparently you, too) would like to raise those people's taxes.  

It's what Republicans have pursued in the states since they took over the governorships in so many states in the 2010 elections.  The Republican tax plan in S. Carolina this year proposed raising taxes on the poorest families in the state and cutting taxes for people who are wealthy.  

When Republicans took over in Wisconsin, the budget introduced would have cut taxes for everybody in the state except for the poor.  It would raise taxes on the poorest people in Wisconsin.  
In Kansas, the Republican governor signed a new bill into law that takes poor people's taxes and raises them.  

What we're seeing is an ideological shift by Republicans around taxation.  Their basic ideas about the legitimacy of taxing people at all.  It's what's allowing them, essentially, to criticize the results of all of their own policymaking, policymaking that created deductions for people in the military, education, that made possible this 47%.  
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