A genuinely angry seeming Jon Stewart tore into Mitt Romney yesterday night for all the various rich-guy ways he got his tax rate down to 13.9 percent. While Romney gets to say that how much he owes the government is out of his hands, Stewart dug up 2007 footage of how Bain Capital lobbied hard to keep the tax on certain investments at 15 percent with Romney, once heading Bain Capital, backing that rate the same year. That lobbying effort clearly succeeded and Mitt kept his low tax bill, leading Stewart to conclude: "Poor people have sh-tty lobbyists."
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