So explain this detail to me.
From his website he says he plans to -
"Make permanent, across-the-board 20 percent cut in marginal rates"
How will that impact the % of people who he now claim is 47% of people who are dependent on government because they pay no federal income taxes.
Won't this part of his plan increase that % of people? Going directly against his plan to make people less dependent on government?
No it won't.
Governor Romney would permanently extend all the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts now scheduled to expire in 2013, repeal the AMT and certain tax provisions in the 2010 health reform legislation, and
cut individual income tax rates by an additional 20 percent. He would also expand the tax base by cutting back tax preferences.
The plan would reduce the six current income tax rates by one-fifth, bringing the top rate down from 35 percent to 28 percent and the bottom rate from 10 percent to 8 percent. The accompanying repeal of the AMT would increase the tax savings from the rate cuts—without that repeal, the AMT would reclaim much of the tax savings.
His plan would recoup the revenue loss caused by those changes by reducing or eliminating unspecified tax breaks, thereby making more income subject to tax. Gov. Romney says that the reductions in tax breaks, in combination with moderately faster economic growth brought about by lower tax rates, will make the individual income tax changes revenue neutral compared with simply extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. He also promises that
low- and middle-income households will pay no larger shares of federal taxes than they do now.