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Fact-checking Obama’s TV ad on taxes

By Molly Moorhead
August 3, 2012

You comparison shop for cans of tuna. Mitt Romney rides on Donald Trump’s jet.

A new Obama campaign ad shows those scenes to hammer at the lifestyle differences between struggling middle-class Americans and the Republican presidential candidate. Then it takes aim at Romney’s economic proposals.

“Now he has a plan,” the ad says, “that would give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle-class families by up to $2,000 a year.”

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