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Romney benefits from rigorous defense of tax plan - The Washington Post
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Romney says in the first presidential debate he will not increase taxes on the middle class: "I will not reduce taxes paid by high income Americans. And I will not, under any circumstances, raise taxes on middle-income families. I will lower taxes on middle income families." How he would do this is through limiting or eliminating deductions and loopholes among several measures, with work done on this by his advisor Martin Feldstein, Reagan's economic advisor and a professor at Harvard University- Romney's Tax Plan can raise revenue, WSJ, 8/28/2012. Where the Democrats and Republicans differ is that economic growth generated by creating incentives for business to invest and hire also plays a part in generating the additional revenues as it did under Reagan's economic plan. Behavioural factors play a large part of this as much as the incentives and other steps, to create a climate of business confidence- search in Janvoo for the Group "Reagan memo of 1980 by Shultz, Friedman," for more on this.
Checking the numbers in the U.S. presidential campaign- Romney's Medicare $716 billion and Obama's tax cuts $5 trillion
08/20/2012
Romney says Obama would reduce money for Medicare by $716 billion-the material fact here is that Obama health care law by reducing payments to providers by $716 billion is likely to push up premiums for insurance. Premiums are already going up and Romney gives the estimate of $2500 in increased premiums so far. Obama says Romney will cut taxes by $5 trillion and this will lead to harsh spending cuts on education and other improtant areas- the material fact here is that Romney says he will not cut education only programs that do not justify borrowing money from China to pay from them, and he will make his reduction of taxes to induce economic, also make it revenue neutral by removing or reducing deductions and loopholes especially for the rich and higher income groups. One approach he says is to flat stop deductions beyond $17,000 and lower for higher income people.
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David Stockman on the budget deficit reduction plans of Republicans and Democrats
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Stockman sees a failure to recognize budget reality in Obama's plan to avoid taxes on the middle class. He also sees a similiar failure in Paul Ryan's effort to shield defense and the rich, while at the same time focussing most of the cuts on the poorer sections of society. He says both plans put off cuts and taxes till way into the future- from 12 years to 20 years into the future.
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Feldstein says its important to increases taxes not tax rates. And the the way to go is to follow the President's Bowles-Simpson Deficit Commission's proposal on tax expenditures. As it is politically difficult to eliminate deductions and exclusions he suggests another proposal- limit the reduction in taxes with a 2% of adjusted gross income cap on the reduction any taxpayer gets.
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A campaign developed by campaign consultants lacking boldness and clear vision, one developed in test-tube fashion, is how Friedman describes the Obama election campaign. He describes the long period in the second half of 2011 as a crucial period inthe Obama presidency, when Obama lacked the courage to embrace his own presidential commission's Simpson-Bowles plan for deficit reduction and simply vacillated in a back and forth with Republicans. The price may well be the loss of independent and center-right voters.
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