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If you want to understand Romney's game plan, just look at what Republicans have been doing in Congress.
It was tempting to dismiss Mitt Romney's hard-right turn during the GOP primaries as calculated pandering. In the general election – as one of his top advisers famously suggested – Romney would simply shake the old Etch A Sketch and recast himself as the centrist who governed Massachusetts. But with the selection of vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, the shape-shifting Romney has lock... Continue reading ...
Simpsons / Family Guy animator Lucas Gray created this animated short about the big choice in 2012's presidential election. Share this with your family and friends.
Is Mitt simply so blinded by his own well-born existence and personal ambition that he cannot or chooses not to see or know 47 percent of America?
As I’m sure you know by now, Romney
said (during a private fund-raiser which was secretly taped) that the
47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income taxes are people who are "dependent
upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the
government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they
are entitled... Continue reading ...
Independent tax experts reported that Mitt Romney's $5 trillion plan to cut taxes for the wealthy would mean a $2,000 tax hike for the average middle-class family.
So what does it all mean for you and your family? Check out this simpleOnline Tax Calculator—enter your income and see the difference for middle-class Americans. To make it more interesting, compare your results to someone making 1.5 million dollars a year.
The
nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent
unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The
president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore
up the nation's balance sheet. Cloaking himself in the language of class
warfare, he calls on a hostile Congress to end wasteful tax breaks for
the rich.
"We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share," h... Continue reading ...
On Monday, April 16th, Senate Republicans voted against the wishes of the American people when they blocked legislation to make millionaires pay at least the same tax rate as middle-class families. According to the most recent survey taken just prior to the vote by CNN/ORC International, 72% of all Americans supported the Buffett Rule -- including 9 out of 10 Democrats, 7 out of 10 Independents and 53% of Republicans.
Commented Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont)after the vote,"It ... Continue reading ...
The chart below tracks job growth under President Obama. Use your cursor by hovering over the circles on the chart to see each action that President Obama undertook that led directly to job creation in the private sector Hover beneath the vertical bars to see exactly how many jobs were added when. Obviously, we still have a long way to go, but the fact remains that Obama's initiatives have created an environment that is conducive to successful job growth.
If the video clip below doesn't illustrate just how out of touch Mitt Romney is with the anger and everyday struggles of middle class Americans and the working poor, I don't know what would. TheTwoHundredMillionDollarMan aka MrOnePercent just doesn't get it.
The fact is, that the 1% profited off of the global financial collapse and recession brought on by their own irresponsibility-- with the help of the deregulation championed by the Republicans over the last thirty years-- handsomely. In ... Continue reading ...
Only the wealthy would benefit from GOP Presidential Primary Candidate Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan.
The Tax Policy Center has released its analysis of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, and it finds that the only people who would benefit from it are those making more than $200,000 a year.Everyone else, especially the poor, would pay more. And the middle class would now have the highest effective federal tax rate.
Those making $1 million a year or more would get a tax cut of nearly $500,000, a 15% change... Continue reading ...
