Obama offers Romney a deal on tax releases- just give voters 5 years

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9. 13% IS the issue

I would like to turn the screw in a different way.

First, a sideswipe at the earlier controversy by saying "We will have to take Romney at his word since we don't have anyway to verify it"

And then go for the kill on the real issue here. Is 13% really an acceptable number? We keep hearing about how overtaxed the job creators are. REALLY?? 13%??

Are we really going to go down a road where it would be less? Possibly far less?

I think this is the winning argument. Partly because it portrays (correctly so) as the elitist out-of-touch pampered rich guy.

But more importantly in the big picture, it destroys the theme that the rich are so downtrodden by burdensome taxes that we need to coddle them more before they will finally trickle on us.

Personally, I would use this fact to go on the offensive and put Capital Gains increases on the table. I have never seen any rational argument for Capital Gains being taxed at a lower rate. I would tax them on the same marginal rate as labor and be done with it. This would almost automatically eliminate the need for the Buffet rule and would do away with the whole "carried interest
nonsense to boot.