SO why exactly is Romney complaining about President Obama's tax raises on the evil 1% if, according to this study, his plan is to raise taxes on the same people?:confused:
Tax Policy Center says Romney CAN'T Keep Tax Reform Promises
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by Zaac, Oct 26, 2012.
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The study makes assumptions about what Romney would change in the tax code that Romney has not articulated.
The best that they can say is that under the assumptions that they make it would not work...
Not that Romney can not make changes that would work.
It also ignores the possibility of reducing spending to cut the deficit.
This has already been rehashed here on the board several times already. -
But again, why is Romney planning to raise taxes? -
The assumptions that they are making are their own - about what the specifics of Romney's plan are.
They are not analyzing Romney's plan.
And you don't know if Romney will raise taxes. -
They analyzed his plan the same way the folks who determined its growth effects did.
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I notice that you also glossed over spending cuts as part of the plan.
Not to mention limiting itemized deductions. -
InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Others have argued that the Tax Policy Center filled in too many of the holes in Mr. Romney’s light-on-detail proposal — making a full analysis impossible and skewing the center’s paper’s results.
“It is not an analysis of Governor Romney’s plan,” said Scott A. Hodge, the president of the Tax Foundation. a nonprofit research group also based in Washington.
“It has been, I think, mislabeled as such and misinterpreted as such. We don’t think there are enough details to analyze,” he said, adding that he believed that it was possible to devise a distributionally neutral, revenue neutral tax reform that cut rates in the way Mr. Romney described.
So why believe Harvey S. Rosen of Princeton over Scott A. Hodge? Especially when Romney says he won't raise taxes? -
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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I'll trust the plans of a conservative candidate over the poor results of the liberal now in office who promises to keep doing the same thing.
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Amen to that. If some people would spend some time listening to Romney instead of bashing him, they would be better informed.
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Found this:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/26/excerpts-romney-economic-speech/comment-page-1/ -
Thanks, ITL: From your link: "We have had four presidential and vice-presidential debates. And there is nothing in what the President proposed or defended that has any prospect of meeting the challenges of the times. Raising taxes will not grow jobs or ignite the economy–in fact, his tax plan has been calculated to destroy 700,000 jobs. "
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Zaac, why don't you just show some honesty and admit that you are an Obamaite? Most people here know it already. You haven't fooled many people so far because you're too obvious.
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter