In response to the President's speech this morning, MoveOn.org Civic Action is out with a rapid response 30-second TV ad that will air on national cable later this week. The ad, called "Buffett's Secretary", challenges the GOP to make millionaires pay their fair share.
For those who cannot play it, there are several people who say "I'm Warren Buffett's secretary," while the statement below says "not really Warren Buffet's secretary." Each makes the point that he or she pays higher taxes percentagewise than his or her billionaire boss.
Warren Buffett doesn't think his secretary should pay a higher percentage of income in taxes than he does, and most Americans agree. Tell Congress it's time for millionaires and billionaires to pay…
A statement from Daniel Mintz, Campaign Director for MoveOn, following the President's speech today:
Our nation now has a clear choice between the two parties: On one side, you have the President asking millionaires to pay their fair share so we can create jobs. On the other side, you have Tea Party-led Republicans in Congress seeking to end Medicare as we know it so they can protect outrageous tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
In short, the president wants to tax billionaires to create jobs. The Republicans want to end Medicare to protect billionaires. The only way out of the economic hole that we are in is to put Americans back to work. The President has laid out a clear vision to do that. Any Republicans, or Democrats, who oppose these common sense, hugely popular proposals will be standing in the way of a real recovery and will have to answer to voters next year.
From my diary this morning. President Barack Obama:
"Either we have to ask the wealthy to pay their fair share, or we have to ask seniors to pay more for medicare, or gut education," he continued. "This is not class warfare. It's Math."
For those here who have taken part in or just have seen the wars over the last few years, I think we now have a time in which "purists" and "pragmatists," critics and ardent defenders, all Democrats can join in. Obama unifies where kossaks cannot.
As moveon says:
Our nation now has a clear choice between the two parties.
I know which side I am on! The one that does math. :-)