In the debate, Romney outlined a tax plan that would benefit himself and people like him, and pretty much nobody else:
You see, the top 1 percent has its own top 1 percent—the richest of the rich—and those lucky enough to count themselves within its ranks would be the big winners from a cut in the top rate of income tax to 28 percent...
Meanwhile the lower 99 percent of the top 1 percent—and the next 2 percent after them—will lose much more from the removal of the tax deductions than they will gain from lower rates.
Do you earn between $100,000 and $300,000?
If you do, you might think you're in the middle class. You'd be wrong about that, as even David Frum admits in his article, but let's call you the "lower upper class."
Well, in Mitt Romney's tax plan, you lose so that people like him can win, and win big.
Just ask Jeff Johnson, a successful businessman in a family-owned company in the D.C. area. He’s no Occupy Wall Street type. He’s as vexed by the many lower-income Americans who pay no income taxes at all as he is by the ultra-rich few who pay 15 percent rates or less... he wants to know why so much of the cost falls on him and people like him: not the fabulously wealthy but the ordinary rich... “The ultra-wealthy don’t care about W-2 wages. They’re working for stock appreciation, distributions, and so on.”
In other words, a big tax cut of greatest value to those earning more than $500,000 a year... will be offset by a tax increase that will fall most heavily on those who earn between $100,000 and $300,000 of taxable income.
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he is talking about paying for a tax cut for the Porsche customer with a tax increase on the Porsche salesman. Both may be “rich” from the point of view of the typical American worker. But they are not rich in anything like the same way.
Bottom line, even a conservative like David Frum is admitting that Romney plans to make people like himself significantly more wealthy with irresponsible tax cuts by taxing what conservatives call "job creators." Now, I might contend that average real middle class workers/consumers are the job creators, but even if we pretend for a second that those in the $100,000 to $300,000 range are, we now know that conservatives admit that Romney intends to hit them, and hit them hard.
So if you know an economic conservative doctor or dentist or business owner who makes between $100k and $300k, let them know what their conservative buddy David Frum is saying about Romney's plan to savage them for the sake of his uber-rich jet set buddies. And remember, Obama wants to avoid taxing those earning under $300k ($250k to be more precise).
Americans pretty much all agree: we want to ramp up taxes on super-rich guys/gals like Mitt Romney, not necessarily on the lower rungs of the lower upper class. And that's exactly what Mitt Romney will do anything to avoid - that's why he wants to be president - to give even more irresponsible bailouts to the top .01% with his Reverse Robin Hood tax plan, while savaging anyone who has the audacity to earn less than $300k a year.