"This Time ‘Class Warfare’ Cry is True" by Margaret Carlson at Bloomberg
This Time ‘Class Warfare’ Cry is True
by Margaret Carlson at Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-17/this-time-class-warfare-cry-is-true.html
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Last week, Mitt Romney called the social safety net “free stuff.” In other words, if the unemployed get insurance or the poor receive food stamps, it’s a giveaway. If a private equity manager pays 14 percent tax on his millions while a firefighter pays 28 percent on his thousands, that’s rewarding risk takers.
This summer, though, Republicans finally have a point. Democrats really are playing class warfare. They haven’t won yet, but with Romney as the Republican standard bearer, they just might.
President Barack Obama’s campaign met with resistance when it first attacked Romney as an out-of-touch businessman whose experience at Bain Capital LLC, rather than qualify him for the presidency, disqualifies him. A few Democrats, dependent for campaign cash on life’s big winners, complained that Obama was attacking free enterprise. Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker called the attacks “nauseating,” echoing the complaints of Rush Limbaugh and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, who had jumped on Romney’s primary rivals when they characterized his business tactics as “vulture capitalism.”
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Democrats have stopped complaining. In the best political ad in years, Obama’s campaign features Romney singing an off-key “America the Beautiful” with lines such as “amber waves of grain” and “God shed his grace on thee” illustrated by images juxtaposing shuttered factories in the U.S. with the Romney tax havens of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
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