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Obama for America

"Mosaic" +

:30 ad from June 12, 2012 run in CO, FL, IA, NV, NH, NC, OH, PA and VA. 

Obama (voiceover): I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.

[Music] Romney (2002): I'm going to reduce taxes, I'm going to roll back...

Male Announcer: As governor Mitt Romney did cut taxes—on millionaires like himself, but he raised taxes and fees on everyone else.  1.5 billion.  Over a thousand fee hikes, on health care, on school bus rides, on milk, on drivers' licenses, on nursing homes, on lead poisoning prevention, on meat and poultry inspection, on fishermen, on gun owners, on nurses, on electricians, on hospitals, on funeral homes, on mental health services...

Romney economics didn't work then, and won't work now.

Notes: This ad and "Come and Go" launched on the same day.  From the press release...

As Mitt Romney continues to evade his record as governor of Massachusetts, Obama for America today released two new television advertisements – “Mosaic” and “Come and Go” – as part of its continuing effort to highlight the reality of his failed economic policies.

When Romney ran for governor, he promised that he wouldn’t raise taxes and that he would use the values he learned in business to create jobs. But today’s ads make clear that he broke those promises and left Massachusetts worse off.

As highlighted in “Mosaic,” Romney raised more than 1,000 taxes and fees totaling more than $1.5 billion.  He raised each resident’s tax burden by $1,200 per person, an increase of 30 percent. Romney increased fees for everything from milk to nursing homes, from school bus rides to poultry inspections. Fees also increased for gun owners and electricians.

And as highlighted in “Come and Go,” Mitt Romney brought the same values he learned in the private sector to the state house, outsourcing call center jobs to India instead of hiring workers from his own state. 

Even today, as he runs for president, Mitt Romney still doesn’t have a jobs plan -- instead relying on the same failed ideas that he implemented in Massachusetts. They didn’t work then, and they won’t work now.