Matt Miller on the 47% who pay no income tax

There have been a lot of comments about Gov. Romney's comments at a fundraiser in Florida, but Matt Miller's comments seem to get to the heart of the matter about the 47% that don't pay INCOME taxes:

...those in the 47 percent who aren’t seniors or veterans are mostly poor workers whose payroll taxes, at 15.3 percent (since the employer side of the tax effectively comes out of workers’ wages), leaves them taxed at a higher rate than was Mitt Romney on his $20 million income last year...

As far as I've seen, Miller is also the only one who has noted Milton Friedman's hand in the creation of the policies that Romney was indirectly attacking.

If ANY assistance from government is defined as dependence, we can't have a meaningful policy debate.  We all benefit somewhere, somehow, from government.  But if the focus turns to how to allow those who are struggling to empower themselves, then we might get somewhere.

Voter ID update

Here's a Huffington Post article on the latest State Supreme Court ruling on the Voter ID law.

Long story short: the burden of proof has now shifted:  the lower court must now determine that voters will not be disenfranchised by this law for this November's election in order to leave it in effect.  The lower court ruling is due in early October.