OBAMA, GOP MARK TAX DAY WITH POLITICAL PITCHES

President Obama and his Republican opponents marked one of the year’s biggest political events Wednesday: Tax Day.

Obama traveled to North Carolina to argue that his tax cut plan would benefit the middle class while Republican proposals favor only the wealthy.

“It is significant that this is Tax Day,” Obama said during a town hall in Charlotte, adding that his plans would cut taxes for about 44 million working- and middleclass families.

The Republicans also followed a political tradition practiced every April 15: events and statements arguing that they want to cut taxes while Democrats such as Obama are interested only in raising them. “Higher taxes for more government: the same-old approach that punishes hard work,” House Speaker John Boehner, R- Ohio, said.