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The FIVE Most Shocking Things About Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan

The FIVE Most Shocking Things About Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan

Romney’s Ready to Hand Out Billions More to the 1 Percent

The Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Michael Linden, director of tax and budget policy, and Seth Hanlon, director of fiscal reform, took a closer look at Romney’s tax plan.

Here’s what they found in five quick charts.

IN ONE SENTENCE: Millionaire Mitt Romney’s economic agenda is of, by, and for the wealthiest 1 Percent of Americans — period.

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