Romney’s Tax Cuts May Be a Hard Sell With Voters

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Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- In U.S. national politics,Republicans flourish when the focus is on tax cuts; they sufferwhen Medicare is the focus. It looks like it’ll be differentthis year.

Mitt Romney has proposed huge tax cuts that principallybenefit the wealthy, while refusing to say how he’d pay for themby closing unspecified loopholes. This lacks credibility and maybecome one of the rare tax-cut promises that is a politicalloser.