"The Obama campaign didn’t skip a beat after the release of a nonpartisan study showing Mitt Romney’s tax plan would raise taxes on everyone but the top five percent on Wednesday. Thursday morning, they released a new ad slamming Romney’s tax plan as Romney’s “middle class tax increase.”

The ad begins with the information we know about Romney’s own personal taxes: that he raised over $20 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent in taxes.

”You work hard, stretch every penny. But chances are, you pay a higher tax rate than him,” says a narrator, flashing to a picture of the Republican nominee.

“Now he has a plan that would give millionaires another tax break, and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2,000 a year.”

“Mitt Romney’s middle class tax increase: He pays less, you pay more,” the wraps up the ad.

The campaign didn’t initially indicate the size of the ad buy or which states it would be running in.

Watch here. (http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-ad-romneys-tax-plan-middle-class-tax)

More of the progressive bull sh1t.
Not increasing taxes is not a tax reduction.

Oh, that would be the non-partisan study done by one guy who used to be a staffer, and another guy who has publicly called for greater tax increases and more stimulus, and has visited the white House 12 times. the last guy, Brown, is a graduate student at Brown University. No real take on his politics, other than the fact that his thesis is about renewable energy for rural communities. Not damning in and of itself but an indicator that he might not be a conservative sort of guy.

So yep, independent and non-partisan my ass. :sarcasm:

(Can someone write me a script that automatically appends the sarcasm smiley whenever I reply to NB?)