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New Obama Ad Highlights Romney’s Tax Returns [View all]
Source: TPM
BENJY SARLIN 3:08 PM EDT, FRIDAY OCTOBER 12, 2012
The Obama campaign is focusing on tax fairness in their latest ad, using a Mitt Romney interview about his tax rate that Joe Biden brought up in the vice presidential debate on Thursday.
Most of the spot consists of a clip of Romney on 60 Minutes last month defending his 14% effective tax rate on $20 million of income, which is on par with some middle-income workers' tax rates, as fair and a way to "encourage growth."
"Lower tax rates for him than us," the ad's narrator says. "Is that the way to grow America?"
Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/new-obama-ad-highlights-romneys-tax-returns
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