Mitt Romney rebuts Democrats‘ claims about his tax plan
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BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) — Mitt Romney sought to inoculate himself Tuesday against Democratic charges that he favors the rich, saying his as yet-to-be disclosed tax plans will not benefit the well-to-do at the expense of others.
“I’m going to keep the burden on the upper-income people the same as it is today,” the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting said as he campaigned across Pennsylvania on Tax Day. “I know Democrats will say it day in and day out, ‘They are for tax cuts for the rich,’ he said, mimicking his rivals. “No,’” he added firmly.
By contrast, Romney said Obama wants to raise taxes, a step the Republican said would hamper job creation. Unlike Romney and most Republicans, the president wants to allow existing Bush-era tax cuts to expire at the end of the year for those at upper incomes.
As he sought to parry the inevitable Democratic accusations, Romney also tackled a second, if unspoken concern, a perception that he has difficulty establishing rapport with middle-class voters. To that end, his campaign arranged an outdoor event in a Pittsburgh suburb at which the wealthy former businessman-turned-politician and eight area residents sat amicably around a picnic table and talked about economic issues.
There was one fleeting moment of awkwardness, when Romney guessed that a plate of cookies set out on the table were from “a local 7-Eleven bakery or whatever,” instead of a local firm, Bethel Bakery.
But Jason Thomas, one of the participants, later told reporters: “I thought he was likable person … I will personally go on record and say he doesn’t seem out of touch. He was asking us what our concerns were and we tried our best to represent our concerns, the concerns for our children, and a lot of our friends and family as well.”
Freed of the last vestiges of a challenge for the Republican presidential nomination, Romney is now able to campaign around the country as the nominee of his party with only passing concern for upcoming primary states.
His itinerary this week runs from Pennsylvania, one of several primary states on April 24, to Arizona, where he will speak to a nationwide gathering of Republican officials. Along the way he has stops in North Carolina, to deliver a “prebuttal” to Obama’s Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, and Ohio, a perennial battleground in presidential elections.
In yet another indication that the party is leaving the nomination campaign behind, Romney drew endorsements during the day from the two top Republican leaders in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, and Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader.
Romney so far has provided only a few details of the ambitious program of tax reform he says he will propose if he wins the White House.
He favors extending all the Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of the year, and has said he wants to cut rates an additional 20 percent across the board.
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The American People Need Jobs. So The American People Need Congress To Pass Obama’s Jobs Bill. The American Jobs Act Has Been Blocked By House Republicans For Way To Long. This Bill Would Put Americans Back To Work. So Pass This Bill And Put Americans Back To Work.
We ALL can have a wonderful, happy & safe Holiday Season if we ALL have jobs.
America has never been about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. That’s the principle we were founded on.”
In 1983 I started my “political career” by actively working for the election of one Harold Lee Washington for Mayor of Chicago. That campaign was my introduction to inside the political grassroots game.
Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an Americanlawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.
Like with POTUS Obama, Mayor Washington was opposed and obstructed at every turn in his efforts to do the job he was elected by the citizens of Chicago to accomplish.
Like POTUS Obama, Mayor Harold Lee Washington won re-election to his second term.
I was blessed to witness history and participate in the election and re-election of the first Black American Mayor of Chicago.
I was blessed to witness and participate in the election and re-election of the first Black American President Of The United States.
Barack Hussein Obama won re-election tonight against the greatest of odds: voter suppression laws, voter ID laws, racism, birtherism, voter fraud, evil lying from the Romney/Ryan campaign, name calling from Republican surrogates, and even voter machine rigging. Barack Hussein Obama is STILL President Of The United States.
What does that tell us, that Barack Hussein Obama won despite all that dishonest political gamesmanship? It tells us, unequivocally, that Citizens United, Sheldon Adleson, The Koch Bros., The NRA, Clint Eastwood, A.L.E.C. and all the other billionaire donors who sunk millions into this election…..don’t stand a chance against the voice/will/demands of “We The People”.
It tells us that no matter how you lie and cheat and steal during a campaign, American people who vote can tell the difference between a lie and the truth, even if the media can’t….or won’t….call a lie a lie.
I had to post this photo because it shows a fundamental difference in the two candidates. Can you honestly see Willard Mitt Romney striking this pose?
I never had one ounce of doubt Barack Hussein Obama would not win re-election. Not one ounce of doubt. I thought it would be by a wider margin than the final results. I had faith that the President would be returned to “His House” to finish the job he started. America might be a racist place, but when you start talking about taking away social services, removing healthcare from sick and elderly, raising taxes on middle and poor classes while lowering taxes on the wealthy, you run the risk of pissing off potential voters.
When you alienate the LGBT community, tell the Latino population to self deport, ignore the Black community except to bark like a dog and repeat “who let the dogs out” when in their presence…well the outcome is inevitable.
Tonight Barack Hussein Obama has made history. Tonight Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden, Jr. has made history.
America is not about what can be done FOR us. America is about what can be done BY us.
Jueseppi B.
