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It’s time for Republicans to attack payroll taxes

By Philip Klein
Published February 27, 2014 5:00am ET
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It’s time for Republicans to attack payroll taxes
To appeal to a wider base of voters, Republicans will have to rethink their myopic focus on personal and corporate income taxes and look at ways to attack payroll taxes. (Thinkstock) | AndreyPopov

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney infamously wrote off much of the electorate at a 2012 fundraising event, he argued that, “47 percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect.”

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