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Mitt Romney's campaign used the federal deadline to file income tax returns Tuesday to hammer President Obama over his "tax and spend" policies, saying that the president was hiding his real plan for the country's budget and was promoting lavish spending and excessive hiring at federal agencies.

In a call with reporters, Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), John Campbell (R-Calif.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) hammered the president for policies Chaffetz said "grow government, not jobs."

"We're not just one good tax increase away from prosperity in this nation," Chaffetz said, in apparent allusion to the proposed "Buffett Rule" defeated in the Senate on Monday. That legislation would have raised the tax on investment income for those making over a million dollars per year in an effort to bring their effective tax rate in line with the amount paid on ordinary income.

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