From Half Sigma's blog:
Timothy Geithner, and now Nancy Killefer and Tom Daschle. All tax cheats. It’s funny how these Democrats are happy to spend other taxpayers’ money on social programs, but not so eager to actually pay taxes themselves.
Amen. I wish religious people said amen repeatedly so I could do it now. Let me add Al Franken--who has also been accused of failing to pay taxes. (Let's not forget Bill Richardson's shenanigans too).
The General Social Survey asked 733 Americans if they thought cheating on taxes is wrong, and also asked who they voted for in 1996. The graph shows that 16.3% of Clinton voters think tax evasion is not wrong or a little bit wrong, compared to 9.1% of Dole supporters.
Okay, I did the same type of thing, cross-referencing RACE and TAXCHEAT.
ReplyDeleteOf all races, 4.2% thought cheating on taxes was not wrong. 7.9% of blacks thought so; 3.7% of whites thought so.
11.3% of respondents thought cheating was a bit wrong; 14.6% of blacks thoughts so, and 10.5% of whites thought so.
Wrong: 53.6% overall, 54.8% of blacks; 53.7% of whites.
Seriously wrong: 30.9% overall, 22.7% of blacks, 32.1% of whites.
Just for fun I used AFFRMACT and TAXCHEAT. Problem is, you get a 4x4 chart, and when I squash categories together I get different results depending on which I add together to create a new 2x2 chart.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I decided to cut each variable in half down the middle (i.e., I added raw data from NOT WRONG to A BIT WRONG). In this case, I found AA supporters somewhat more opposed to tax cheating.
The other way I tried it, isolating the extreme lower-left square, yielded the opposite result. Just over two-thirds of people who think tax cheating is seriously wrong also strongly oppose affirmative action, while only 57% of those who think tax cheating is less-than-seriously-wrong are also very anti-AA.
Democrats love to tax the crap out of you, and skip on paying their share
ReplyDelete16.3% is hardly enough to merit such a generalization.
16.3% is hardly enough to merit such a generalization.
ReplyDeleteLOL, first time here? Any slight correlation between Democrats, non-religious people, or blacks and something negative and it's proof that the whole group sucks.
(Sorry, I feel bad about my last comment. Little overgeneralizing myself. :-)
ReplyDelete"Any slight correlation between Democrats, non-religious people, or blacks and something negative and it's proof that the whole group sucks."
ReplyDeleteReminds me of mass media / urban hipster attitudes toward the small town and lower-middle class people.
Except in reverse.
"16.3% is hardly enough to merit such a generalization."
ReplyDeleteIf hyperbole bothers you then you've come to the wrong blog.
"Sorry, I feel bad about my last comment. Little overgeneralizing myself."
ReplyDeleteDon't feel so bad, that's just how you operate, along with the lazy thinking.