New Romney, Obama TV ads spar on economy, taxes as president visits Florida
by George Bennett | August 2nd, 2012Key line: “He focused on Obamacare instead of jobs. Barack Obama — what a disappointment”
Key line: “Mitt Romney’s middle-class tax increase — he pays less, you pay more.”
WINTER PARK — With President Obama set to make another campaign appearance in Florida today, Mitt Romney‘s campaign has released a new ad saying Obama’s focus on health care legislation during the first two years as president came at the expense of improving jobs and the economy.
The Obama campaign is running a new Florida ad piggybacking off Wednesday’s release of a think-tank report that says Romney’s plan to cut tax rates and scale back deductions would sock middle-class taxpayers while the wealthy got a big tax cut.
Obama, who used the report as a hammer while campaigning in Ohio on Wednesday, is expected to do more of the same this afternoon when he speaks at Rollins College.
Top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom this morning called the report by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center “a joke” that doesn’t factor in the impact of the economic growth and new jobs that Fehrnstrom says would be created by Romney’s tax plan.
The Romney camp has not released many details of the tax plan aside from broad goals of cutting individual rates by 20 percent across the board, eliminating deductions and loopholes to keep the plan revenue-neutral and maintaining progressivity.
“These are goals that are accomplishable,” Romney Deputy Policy Director Jonathan Burks on a conference call with reporters. “The details of how that will be accomplished are things that will have to be worked out with Congress.”
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August 2nd, 2012 at 2:49 pm
All the TV ads say is that the other guy doesn’t know his front from his back side, and if you elect me, I will make rainbows and unicorns appear.
Great, but really guys, what are YOU going to do about balancing the budget, reigning in the out of control costs of medical care, unemployment, etc.
Lowering taxes will buy you votes, but won’t help shrink the deficit.
You want to cut spending? Great! Which programs do you want to ax, what impact will that have on those affected and exactly how much is that going to shave off the deficit?
What are your plans for getting the outsourced jobs back to the USofA?
More tax breaks for corps and the wealthy? Great! What is the stick that will cause them to create the jobs with that money and make those jobs pay a living wage?
Where are the plans? Where are the details?
Maybe as a service to voters in this years election, can PB Post do a side by side comparison on where both candidates stand on the issues.
August 2nd, 2012 at 3:05 pm
AKA: Lying liars and the lies they tell. The same tactics applied by the same players to achieve the same results. And the public eats it up every time.
August 2nd, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Uuuuggghhh!!! Watching television around an election year BLOWS!!! Two adults revert back to childhood and spend millions finger pointing and name calling..when they are both likely to be lying and telling you (John Q Public) exactly what you want to hear..and as history has shown they usually ARE lying….
They both might as well promise everyone a million dollars and world peace…because that’s about how likely it is they aren’t deceiving you…
Take EVERYTHING a politician says and promises with a grain of salt..that’s about how much their ‘word’ is actually worth…if that much!