By Joel Gehrke
President Obama portrayed Mitt Romney as the opposite of Robin Hood saying that his Republican opponent wants to take money from poorer people to give it to wealthier people.
Its like Robin Hood in reverse" Obama
said of Romneys tax plan which would cut taxes across the board by 20 percent during a fundraiser in Connecticut. Its Romney Hood."
Obamas quip distils an attack that he has repeated in the last week. In order to afford just one $250000 tax cut for somebody like Mr. Romney 125 families like yours would have to pay another $2000 in taxes each and every year" the president
said at another fundraiser last Wednesday.
His claim is based on a report from the Tax Policy Center even though the authors who include one former Obama aide and a former aide to President George H.W. Bush preface their study by saying We do not score Governor Romneys plan directly as certain components of his plan are not specified in sufficient detail nor do we make assumptions regarding what those components might be."
