Priorities USA Action, the leading outside Democratic group supporting President Obama's re-election, released a new television advertisement on Saturday highlighting a study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and suggests that Mitt Romney's plans would raise taxes on the middle class while cutting them for the wealthy.
The ad is set to run next week in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
The 30-second commercial, which is titled “We the People,†is aimed squarely at middle-class voters and features images of firefighters and short-order cooks. The message amplifies one of the central themes of the Democratic National Convention.
“D oesn't Mitt Romney understand?†the announcer says. “We can't rebuild America by tearing down the middle class?â€
The advertisement cites the Tax Policy Center as concluding that a middle class family would pay an average of $2,000 more to help pay for a $250,000 tax cut for some of the wealthiest Americans.
The Romney campaign has aggressively pushed back against the analysis from the Tax Policy Center, saying it is based on unfair assumptions. Other independent analysts say Mr. Romney's tax plan is not sufficiently detailed to offer such a conclusive analysis.
But the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has said that it stands by its conclusion: that Mr. Romney's proposals would mean big tax cuts for the highest-income taxpayers and increases for everyone else.
