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The ad Romney (or someone) needs to run

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“If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”  [image of Obama freezes]

Female voice: Whoa, let’s stop right there.  He goes on to use that as an excuse to raise taxes.  He believes that people who have been successful have done so because they’ve been taking, and so government should tax more of that away.

[Cue a few images of stand-up local small business owners at work - with text of company names or types, location, # of employees.] But people who create businesses aren’t takers, they’re builders, not just for themselves, but for everyone – jobs, products, and innovations.  We should be encouraging that, not taxing it away from them.

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The aim here is multi-fold.  First, call out Obama’s collectivist rhetoric.   Second, expose the fact that it leads inexorably to higher taxes.  Third, blunt the attacks against wealth (eg Romney’s).  If someone could fit this into 30 seconds, it would be fantastic.

COMMENTS

  • commonsenseobserver

    Not bad.

  • From ME to You

    I know my Dad built his business without government help and he certainly didn’t get any help when he had to close it up. Funny, the government is happy to take their share when you are successful but aren’t willing to pitch in when it fails (unless you are a big donor to the Dems)!

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    Dialog format, live quote, multi-regional rebuttal images, brilliant subliminal fade “From Main Street to Wall Street”–and the take-away lines are his own Fall fallback in the middle of July!

  • dpmapper

    But I do think it would be even better if it threw in the tax thing at some point.

    Although maybe I underestimate gooey music and images…

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    I know we’re supposed to want to get rid of the Czars and all, but in response to the speed, accuracy and kilotonnage of our side’s message wonks, can we maybe honor their work, in January, with something like … a Ministry of Propaganda?