Decision

So far, based off of the research i've done on each candidate, President Obama and Mitt Romney, I am deciding to choose President Obama. The reason why I am swayed more to choose Obama is because his platform seems to represent the common man way more than Romney's. Even though Romney has more political experience in dealing with state issues regarding recession, since he was the governor of both Michigan and Massachusetts, I still believe that Obama is the better pick because his solutions to today's problem favor the average working American. Being that the major current issue is the state of our economy and the recession we are in, we need a president whose plans are going to benefit the majority of Americans. Obama's platform is based upon progressive taxing and "putting more money in the pockets of working Americans" (Obama). Through progressive taxing, taxes will be dependent upon a person's salary, rather than Romney's plan of one set corporate tax. Progressive taxing will cause the wealthy elite to have to pay more taxes, giving those average working people a chance to have more money for themselves. Since a majority of Americans are apart of the working class, progressive taxing will allow them to have more money, which means more spending, which means more money for our economy. However, through Romney's plan, working Americans will have to pay the same amount of taxes as the wealthy, which isn't fair.  If we force people to pay taxes that they can't afford, this only hinders our economy from improving because these people will then look to the government for aid, which means more of our tax dollars will be spent trying to financially stable these individuals.

-Nia B.