Let me get this straight. Romney evidently paid ~$2,800,000 in federal income taxes last year. That’s significantly more than the overwhelming majority of people paid last year. We are now supposed to believe that he is a deadbeat?
History has shown, the more anyone pays, the more the politicians spend. We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem!
Further more the other half of the add is just as dishonest...
of the many lies and misdirections in this campaign, the biggest one is the claim about Romney raising middle class taxes. ACA aka Obamacare has $1 trillion in tax increase in 10 years, and includes the tax on middle class individuals. Romney plan is to repeal those tax increases and has zero tax increases, he wants to extend the current tax rates aka ‘tax cuts’ for the middle class, and implement tax reform by lowering rates and paying those down with loophole closures, which has the added benefit of reducing special interest influence and tax code inefficiency.
The lie by Obama campaign is concocted from a ‘study’ written boy a former Obama staffer that claims counterfactually that even though Ryan budget spends $5 trillion less over 10 years than Obama, that more revenues would be needed by Romney/Ryan. Nowhere does the Romney plan actually line up with those specious claims and there is nothing in Romney’s actual plan to do what the bogus study claims would be done.
Claims that Romney/Ryan wouldnt lower the large amount of increased spending vs what Obama is doing is specious, as Obama is spending at a level that represents the highest spending/GDP ratio since WWII, and multiple Republican budgets have been proposed - including Ryan - that spend literally trillions less than the Obama budget over the next 10 years.
There are many differences between Romney/Ryan and Obama, and wrt the budget the differences are in the ballpark of $5 trillion - Obama wants to spend $5 trillion more over 10 years. ... which begs the question: Whose taxes will HE raise to pay for it? the top 1% or even top 10% cant ever come close to covering that bill.