Obama’s response, via Ta-Nehisi Coates, who reminds us that in the eyes of Mitt Romney, we’re all welfare queens now. Demagoguery as progress?
Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog is all over this controversy, explaining who receives government benefits, breaking down the the ‘47 percent’ and why they pay no taxes, and how paying no federal income taxes helps the poor get a toehold in the working world and why Romney’s comments are not a gaffe, but central to his economic agenda.
Read the original report from Mother Jones here, and watch the leaked video here.