But the component parts -- cutting taxes for middle-class families, cutting taxes for small businesses that are hiring our veterans and hiring the long-term unemployed, putting teachers back in the classroom -- here in the state of Hawaii, you have a bunch of kids who are going to school four days a week because of budget problems.
Romney actually proposes cutting income tax rates across the board for everyone by 20%, including the middle class, as Reagan did in cutting income tax rates by 25% in 1981, which spawned the generation long, 1982 to 2007 boom.