Post by jeffolie on Jul 10, 2012 16:09:10 GMT -6
Obama tax fairness/class war campaign: Rich Republicans
Can Obama turn the tax issue to his favor in the polls?
Numbers bore voters...taxes as a topic tend to favor those who actually pay income taxes: middle class and upper classes.
Campaigning in Swing States now gets most of the PAC money: all negative ads
How effective is Obama's tax fairness/class war painting Republicans as the Rich only? Most American ignore the class warfare issue because they hope, aspire to be rich themselves by luck in the lotteries or good business sucess someday...hope to avoid higher taxes themselves if they make it big.
US: the aspirational society
Schools promote making it big and getting there by education...Americans are indoctrinated from childhood to accept and admire getting rich. These aspirations often repeated as how to suceed, how to get a job that pays well through education push children and their parents without questioning alternatives. Americans indeed work more hours than workers in other countries per person per year on average. Americans sympathize and accept that joblessness brings on depressions, stigma and failure in life without considering less materialistic alternatives.
Obama's attempt to trash talk sucess and wealth gets a Republican response that typical includes call this class warfare as 'unAmerican'. Republicans probably should have picked a better phrase considering its 'history', but they probably are safe on this issue.
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".... Obama took his message for "tax fairness" on the campaign trail on Tuesday, visiting the election battleground state of Iowa to tout calls for middle-class tax relief and paint Republicans as the party that favors the rich.
A day after he proposed extending Bush-era tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 annually, Obama told a campaign rally that if Congress did not act, the average family of four would have to pay about $2,200 more in taxes next year.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his congressional allies want to extend the cuts for all income levels. They say the president's move would hurt small businesses that are creating jobs.
more... www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-usa-campaign-obama-idUSBRE8691DV20120710
Can Obama turn the tax issue to his favor in the polls?
Numbers bore voters...taxes as a topic tend to favor those who actually pay income taxes: middle class and upper classes.
Campaigning in Swing States now gets most of the PAC money: all negative ads
How effective is Obama's tax fairness/class war painting Republicans as the Rich only? Most American ignore the class warfare issue because they hope, aspire to be rich themselves by luck in the lotteries or good business sucess someday...hope to avoid higher taxes themselves if they make it big.
US: the aspirational society
Schools promote making it big and getting there by education...Americans are indoctrinated from childhood to accept and admire getting rich. These aspirations often repeated as how to suceed, how to get a job that pays well through education push children and their parents without questioning alternatives. Americans indeed work more hours than workers in other countries per person per year on average. Americans sympathize and accept that joblessness brings on depressions, stigma and failure in life without considering less materialistic alternatives.
Obama's attempt to trash talk sucess and wealth gets a Republican response that typical includes call this class warfare as 'unAmerican'. Republicans probably should have picked a better phrase considering its 'history', but they probably are safe on this issue.
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".... Obama took his message for "tax fairness" on the campaign trail on Tuesday, visiting the election battleground state of Iowa to tout calls for middle-class tax relief and paint Republicans as the party that favors the rich.
A day after he proposed extending Bush-era tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 annually, Obama told a campaign rally that if Congress did not act, the average family of four would have to pay about $2,200 more in taxes next year.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his congressional allies want to extend the cuts for all income levels. They say the president's move would hurt small businesses that are creating jobs.
more... www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-usa-campaign-obama-idUSBRE8691DV20120710