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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 07:47 AM Sep 2012

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Lis Smith ?@Lis_Smith
"@PaulRyanVP stood by helplessly, & in apparent pain, as @MittRomney strayed from campaign TPs on POTUS' tax record."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/romney-obama-did-not-raise-taxes/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

In the midst of remarks otherwise ridiculing the president’s tax record, Romney said: “I admit this, [President Obama] has one thing he did not do in his first four years — he’s said he’s going to do in the next four years, which is to raise taxes.”

Behind him, Ryan appeared to wince at the mention.

During the primaries, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul offered a very different view of the presidents record, when she told the L.A. Times: “President Obama has raised taxes 19 times.”

Indeed, Republicans have spent much of the election season criticizing Obama for adding to the middle class tax burden, most recently citing in a campaign email blast the 6 million Americans expected to face a tax penalty for violating the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandate.

“The president has raised taxes on the middle class, as determined by the Supreme Court,” Romney said in August, referring to the high court’s decision to uphold Obama’s health care law based on Congress’s constitutional authority to levy taxes.

The Romney campaign offered a correction (last night) . . .

read: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/romney-obama-did-not-raise-taxes/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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