{"id":9095,"date":"2012-10-10T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9095"},"modified":"2012-10-10T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T16:17:15","slug":"the-mathematics-of-misanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/10\/the-mathematics-of-misanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematics of Misanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Willard Romney’s budget has a couple problems. They are math and misanthropy.  Every time anyone asks him or his boy wonder to explain the budget, they change the subject.  They do so, because voters would turn away in disgust, if they understood what Romney and Ryan intend.  The math problem is that their numbers do not add up.  The misanthropy problem is how they intend to make up the difference by shafting the burden to the 99% of Americans, who would not benefit from the huge tax cuts for the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10romneyryanbudget\"\u2026The Claim: Romney\u2019s tax plan can\u2019t add up, Obama said. \u201cIt\u2019s math,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s arithmetic.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Background: Romney has proposed reducing income tax rates by 20 percent and eliminating the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax. He says his plan would boost growth, while avoiding an expansion of the federal budget deficit because he also would curtail deductions, exemptions and credits. He says there are enough tax breaks for top earners that he would eliminate to avoid shifting the burden to the middle class<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The Facts: Romney\u2019s tax plan can\u2019t add up<\/strong> under congressional budget-scoring rules that don\u2019t let him assume that economic growth will generate higher tax revenue. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s argument rests on an August analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington. That group sought to see if it was simultaneously possible to meet all of Romney\u2019s principles: Cut tax rates, avoid shifting the tax burden to the middle class, don\u2019t increase the budget deficit, and keep tax benefits for savings and investment. <\/p>\n

The study found that, in 2015, $86 billion of the tax burden would be shifted to the middle class to keep the plan from increasing the deficit\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Martin Bashir discussed the math and the misanthropy with Jared Bernstein and Jeffrey Sachs.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Romney plan leaves $1 Trillion to stick on the poor and middle classes, if and only if he takes every single penny of deductions from the 1%. The notion that Romney would do so to his vulture capitalist cronies is fertilizer for your veggies, so it will be far worse than $1 Trillion.  Their answer will be to gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Education, and everything else that does not benefit the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n

Moderate Mitt = Myth!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Willard Romney’s budget has a couple problems. They are math and misanthropy.  Every time anyone asks him or his boy wonder to explain the budget, they change the subject.  They do so, because voters would turn away in disgust, if they understood what Romney and Ryan intend.  The math problem is that their numbers do […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}