Stephanie
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well well, obama being dishonest, AGAIN
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posted at 2:01 pm on October 7, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
The biggest item with which Team Obama was able to come out swinging following last weeks presidential debate (except for something about Mitt Romney being too aggressive and possibly trying to cheat on live television) was playing up their hilariously-contrived claim that Mitt Romneys plan for $5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy must necessarily raise taxes on the middle class or increase the deficit a claim with which Robert Samuelson took umbrage:
Despite its highly imaginary derivation, Obama has continued to use the figure on the stump and the campaign has touted it as point-of-fact fodder (even though, when pressed, the logic starts to fall apart, heh), so the Romney camp is finally hitting back with an ad of their own disputing Team Obamas numbers:
all of it here
Latest Romney ad hits back on Team Obama’s bogus “$5 trillion” claim « Hot Air
links in article and video at site
SNIP:
posted at 2:01 pm on October 7, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
The biggest item with which Team Obama was able to come out swinging following last weeks presidential debate (except for something about Mitt Romney being too aggressive and possibly trying to cheat on live television) was playing up their hilariously-contrived claim that Mitt Romneys plan for $5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy must necessarily raise taxes on the middle class or increase the deficit a claim with which Robert Samuelson took umbrage:
To justify its $5 trillion figure the estimated tax loss over a decade the Obama campaign had to cherry-pick Romneys proposal and the TPC analysis. It had to ignore any revenue raised by reducing tax breaks and assume that, faced with a conflict between the rich and the middle class, Romney would automatically side with the rich as opposed to shielding the middle class from any tax increase. On Wednesday, Romney promised to protect the middle class.
The TPC report was widely interpreted as saying Romney would have to raise taxes on the middle class. It didnt, says the TPCs Howard Gleckman. It simply pointed out that he couldnt keep all his ambitious campaign promises. Hed have to make choices and modifications. So what else is new?
Despite its highly imaginary derivation, Obama has continued to use the figure on the stump and the campaign has touted it as point-of-fact fodder (even though, when pressed, the logic starts to fall apart, heh), so the Romney camp is finally hitting back with an ad of their own disputing Team Obamas numbers:
all of it here
Latest Romney ad hits back on Team Obama’s bogus “$5 trillion” claim « Hot Air