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President Obama has a very complicated argument to make as he works to sell his plan for higher taxes on top earners.
The president believes that he can win back supporters by focusing on a Robin Hood tax increase, but for a president already perceived as too liberal and now weighed down by a sharpened awareness of the taxes in his health law, this looks like its playing into Romneys hands.
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Calling for higher taxes on anyone in an election year during a fresh economic slowdown is tough. Obama and his campaign may be having some success in stoking resentment at the rich in general and Republican Mitt Romney specifically, but when Democrats talk about raising taxes, voters get anxious. It reinforces the most unpopular part of the blue teams brand: tax-and-spend liberalism, a label that could prove toxic to Obam
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/12/romney-keeps-it-simple-obama…