Obama campaign uses fight over payroll-tax cut to hit Romney

[jefferson_dem]

Obama campaign uses fight over payroll-tax cut to hit Romney
By Jonathan Easley - 12/21/11 02:31 PM ET

The Obama campaign is using the contentious payroll-tax debate to go after GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

A video posted on the campaign website Wednesday called Romney out for not taking a stance on the issue, and for previously referring to the payroll tax holiday as a "temporary little Band-Aid."

“The House of Representatives rejected an important bipartisan proposal that would have prevented your taxes from going up at the end of the year,” Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter said in the ad. “House Republicans made their position clear today in opposing this protection for working families. We don’t know where Mitt Romney stands.”

While both parties now agree that the payroll-tax should be extended for all of 2012, last week the Senate overwhelmingly voted to only extend it through February to give the sides more time to come to an agreement on how to pay for a longer-term extension. This week, House Republicans refused to vote on the Senate-passed two-month bill, saying the debate over how to pay for a year-long tax holiday should happen now.

“At first (Romney) came out against the payroll tax cut, calling it a Band-Aid, even though it’s a thousand dollars more each year in your pocket. And then he came out for it when he realized that all of America needed this tax cut,” Cutter continued.

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http://thehill.com/video/campaign/200825-obama-campaign-uses-payroll-tax-fight-to-hit-romney

[Scurrilous]

1. Thanks.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. 1.5% of GDP is not a band-aid, the guy needs to be called out on this

and beaten with it all the way into next November (assuming he wins the nomination).