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How The Obama Campaign Is Spinning A Boring Report Into Campaign Gold
Chopping the study’s key finding — that Romney’s tax plan will raise taxes on just about everyone except the exceptionally wealthy — into a convenient take home-size was a central focus of the Obama campaign this week and it used every method available to it to do so, including the president himself.
“An independent, non-partisan study found that one plan at least would give more tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and they’d pay for those tax cuts by raising taxes on the middle class — an average tax hike of more than $2,000 for families with children,” President Obama said at a White House event focused on his support for an extension of the Bush tax cuts on middle class families Friday.
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The Obama campaign points to some half dozen campaign emails and online projects it devoted to the study this week when asked about the Tax Policy Center study push. The efforts included an online calculator the Obama campaign said would calculate a voter’s tax bill under Romney, an interactive map showing the “impact” of Romney’s plans on various states, and an email to supporters that pointed them to the study and its findings.
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Though the Romney campaign has used TPC studies to its own benefit in the past, this time it called the group’s findings “a joke.”
“An independent, non-partisan study found that one plan at least would give more tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and they’d pay for those tax cuts by raising taxes on the middle class — an average tax hike of more than $2,000 for families with children,” President Obama said at a White House event focused on his support for an extension of the Bush tax cuts on middle class families Friday.
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The Obama campaign points to some half dozen campaign emails and online projects it devoted to the study this week when asked about the Tax Policy Center study push. The efforts included an online calculator the Obama campaign said would calculate a voter’s tax bill under Romney, an interactive map showing the “impact” of Romney’s plans on various states, and an email to supporters that pointed them to the study and its findings.
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Though the Romney campaign has used TPC studies to its own benefit in the past, this time it called the group’s findings “a joke.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/obama-tax-policy-center-report-romney-tax.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Here is Romney camp citing that same study:
The Romney campaign is pushing back against a new study from researchers at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center suggesting Mitt Romney’s tax proposals would actually increase taxes for a whopping a 95% of Americans, denouncing the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, as a “liberal” group. While the Romney campaign hasn’t rebutted the substance of the study, they claim the Tax Policy Center should be dismissed entirely as a biased source.
Objective, Third-Party Analysis Showed Governor Perry’s Plan Would Raise Taxes On Millions Of American Families – But He Doesn’t Seem Interested In The Discussion.
Now he is calling that same "Third Party Analysis" that he used to slam another politician a joke
Romney Camp Calls Tax Study ‘A Joke,’ But Won’t Release Their Own Analysis
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-tax-policy-center-study-joke.php
The Obama Campaign has created a cool calculator "Who's fighting for middle class tax cuts". Check it out!
Enter your Annual Income to see the clear choice between President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s tax plans.
http://www.barackobama.com/tax-calculator/
The Obama Campaign has also created THE ROMNEY TAX HIKE, which is an inter-active map, where you can click on each state and see the difference between each plans.
http://www.barackobama.com/romney-tax-plan#!/TX
Both those tools are kind of cool
They are also out with a new video ad:
OFA's "Stretch" Ad gets rare Geppetto Checkmark from WaPo
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I added that link to the OP
It conveys what's most important to him and his billionaire supporters.
Keep exposing them! That mess that he put out is yet another rethug scam like the "Ryan Budget".
Now. we wait to see if they rig the election.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Policy_Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_B._Marron_Jr.
Marron was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 2008 and 2009. Earlier, he was the deputy director (2005–2007) and acting director (2006) of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Marron’s White House experience includes stints as a senior economic adviser and consultant to the Council of Economic Advisers (2007–08) and as its chief economist (2004–05). He was with Congress’s Joint Economic Committee from 2002 to 2004, first as the Senate minority’s principal economist and later as the committee’s executive director and chief economist.
Marron’s White House experience includes stints as a senior economic adviser and consultant to the Council of Economic Advisers (2007–08) and as its chief economist (2004–05). He was with Congress’s Joint Economic Committee from 2002 to 2004, first as the Senate minority’s principal economist and later as the committee’s executive director and chief economist.
