Obama Budget Forces Republicans To Defend Protecting The Wealthy

By Alan with comments February 13, 2012 13:53

And it also focuses on the disproportionately low rate their likely candidate, Mitt Romney, pays in taxes.

Indeed, if Dems have their way, Republicans will be voting en masse to protect the wealth of their own presidential candidate, one who is worth as much as $250 million and is benefitting to an untold degree from a tax rate that’s lower than many middle class taxpayers pay. Maybe I’m missing something, but this doesn’t seem like very good optics for Romney or the GOP.