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July 29, 2010

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Kelly Klopp

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Dold:  Seals’s Support for Higher Taxes Will Not Get People Back to Work

Dold Opposes Tax Hikes that Would Stunt Economic Growth and Increase Unemployment

Winnetka, IL – Today, Tenth District Congressional candidate Robert Dold denounced his opponent Dan Seals’s six-year record of supporting tax increases that will hurt families and small businesses.  Next year the largest tax hike in history will hit Americans if Congress does not act to stop it. 

“Dan Seals supports the largest tax increase in history,” said Dold campaign spokesperson Kelly Klopp.  “This is the worst possible time to raise taxes, yet for six years Seals has stated his support for higher taxes.”

1.      A Seals for Congress press release dated December 5, 2009 says “Dan has continuously opposed the Bush tax cuts.  He believes they are unfair and should be corrected.  In fact, he has repeatedly called for Congress to roll back these cuts.”

2.      A 2008 Daily Herald article says, “Seals also said he would roll back most of the Bush tax cuts…” (Rivals Outline Economic Ideas, Daily Herald, January 12, 2008)

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4.      In a 2006 newsletter by the 10^th Congressional District Democrats, Seals said, “We have to roll back the Bush tax cuts.”

“Robert Dold opposes any income tax hike because higher taxes would hurt families and small businesses,” said Klopp.  “What Seals fails to understand is that a majority of small business owners pay taxes on their businesses through their personal income tax form, and so personal income taxes are often the same thing as small business taxes.” 

Klopp continued, “Seals calls himself a ‘business consultant’ yet fails to have a basic understanding of how small businesses work.  Tax increases would be a fatal blow to many small businesses, just at the time we are relying on small business to pull the country out of recession.”