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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Obama versus Romney Tax Calculator - post this everywhere and send to all your friends
http://www.barackobama.com/tax-calculator/Be sure to tell them:
Here is a tax calculator to see what the difference is between the taxes you would pay under the Obama plan vesus the Romney plan.
Simply put in your annual income and the number of dependents
http://www.barackobama.com/tax-calculator/
These figures are based on a study released by a nonpartisan group - Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. The study was headed by an economist who was a adviser to President George W. Bush
You can refer them to this article from the Washington Post that explains how the Romney Tax Plan will decrease taxes for the top 5% and increase taxes for almost everyone else:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/study-romney-tax-plan-would-result-in-cuts-for-rich-higher-burden-for-others/2012/08/01/gJQAbeCCOX_story.html?fb_ref=sm_btn_fb&socialreader_check=0&denied=1
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The Obama versus Romney Tax Calculator - post this everywhere and send to all your friends (Original Post)
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2012
OP
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)1. You people
need to pay more taxes so that rich people don't have to. And smile when you do it, because we are going to create lots of McJobs for you.
LiberalFighter
(51,138 posts)3. People don't seem to get it about taxes.
If the rich pay less that means everyone else pays more.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)2. I think I will distribute this to my neighborhood
especially the nasty Republican ones who tell me that they will pay more under Obama