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Princeton economist: Obama’s campaign is misrepresenting my study of Romney’s tax plan
I can’t tell exactly how the Obama campaign reached that characterization of my work. It might be that they assume that Governor Romney wants to keep the taxes from the Affordable Care Act in place, despite the fact that the Governor has called for its complete repeal. The main conclusion of my study is that under plausible assumptions, a proposal along the lines suggested by Governor Romney can both be revenue neutral and keep the net tax burden on taxpayers with incomes above $200,000 about the same. That is, an increase in the tax burden on lower and middle income individuals is not required in order to make the overall plan revenue neutral.
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The Packers fan at the Paul Ryan rally … now this. It seems to be a patter.
aunursa on October 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM
pattern.
aunursa on October 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM
bayam! Come out and play!
Del Dolemonte on October 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Krugman will have a word or two for him at the water cooler.
WeekendAtBernankes on October 8, 2012 at 2:22 PM
They lie!
d1carter on October 8, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Its one thing to fund or partner with a garbage source to ensure the ends justify the means.
Its another game of corruption to lie about a person or professionals easily verifiable comments and/or writings.
I assume its the “people will buy my academia bs, regardless of the truth” being thats Bambis pedigree of academic nonsense and “accomplishments”
Odie1941 on October 8, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Why are people suddenly willing to challenge Obama in public?
Smellofweakness
portlandon on October 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM
No need to feel like you were singled out, champ. Obama misrepresents EVERYTHING. It’s the only path to victory for him.
Or, if you want to get technical about it, he lies. Constantly.
Meredith on October 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM
First AARP, now this. What happens after he is denied a third time–does Rev. Wright crow?
Christien on October 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Paging Captain Louis Renault, to the white phone, please. Captain Renault to the white phone, please.
makattak on October 8, 2012 at 2:27 PM
How does it make democrats feel to realize their guy lies ALL THE TIME?
KMC1 on October 8, 2012 at 2:27 PM
Na, just comes home to rooooooost.
Gatsu on October 8, 2012 at 2:29 PM
I am sure Michelle’s alma mater is impressed with their grad’s hubby.
He is so dreamy, you know…
Odie1941 on October 8, 2012 at 2:29 PM
Kunta needs to spend less timing smoking poles and more time reading them.
Wtf is she even getting these numbers?
Dirt McGirt on October 8, 2012 at 2:30 PM
It’s what liberals do. They misrepresent. Remember the Gulf spill studies?
John the Libertarian on October 8, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Kunta ….Gallup has the race tied.
Pubwic Skrool?
CW on October 8, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Calling Romney a liar is the narrative after the debate but only the true believers are buying it now…
d1carter on October 8, 2012 at 2:37 PM
I guess the way i read this is: “For a princeton economist, professional reputation is important enough to speak up when the president says something stupid.”
WashingtonsWake on October 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM
Krugman grew a beard. Or, should I say, he tried to grow one.
Makes him look like Rip van Winkle, which is totally fitting.
Del Dolemonte on October 8, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Stephanie Cutter: “Why this Princeton economist is a liar … and a felon”.
24 hours later: “I never said he was a liar”.
darwin on October 8, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Oh Goody.
Now we will get to hear Axelrod misrepresenting how the prof. misrepresented himself while claiming that Obama misrepresented his work. Got it.
Last word wins. Truth inconsequential.
Jabberwock on October 8, 2012 at 2:44 PM
The irs audit is in the mail as I type per bho/team going after people who don’t agree with bho?
L
letget on October 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM
HA
WeekendAtBernankes on October 8, 2012 at 2:49 PM
He makes them up. Rasmussen isn’t R+5, it’s R+2.6 at most, and that would be an extremely recent development; look at their tracking of partisan trends and you’ll get an idea. Rasmussen isn’t going to put out a poll that contradicts these numbers.
Keep in mind also that Rasmussen’s party identification tracking was D+1.5 in September 2010 and D+2.9 in October of that year, and you’ll get a good idea of why Kunta Kinte is so desperate to write off Rasmussen.
Caiwyn on October 8, 2012 at 3:27 PM
And that’s registered voters.
Caiwyn on October 8, 2012 at 3:31 PM
During the debate, I loved how Obama claimed that there were “studies” that said that Romney’s plan has to raise taxes on the middle class by $5 trillion. In truth, it’s ONE study by a center-left think tank–and one of the two authors has been saying for weeks that the study, after reconsideration, doesn’t support Obama’s claim one bit.
Obama is a lying SOS.
If he wants to whine about the offsets, have at it. Romney should say that everything is one the table. But yesterday, on a morning show, that fat-a** lesbian, Hillary Rosen, was claiming Romney was going to end the mortgage-interest deduction for everyone. WTF? Take out a Form 1040, Schedule A and start looking it over for things to tag the wealthy with. For starters, how about no deduction for interest and real-estate taxes on second homes? How about eliminating the SIT deduction for all taxpayers? That tends to favor blue state residents over red states. If the blue staters don’t like, they can start holding their state governments responsible.
Say, how is Obama getting away from raising the medical-expense deduction threshold from 7.5% of AGI to 10% of AGI without any complaining?
BuckeyeSam on October 8, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Romney did fire back in the debate “he says he has 1 study that claims “X”, we have 6 studies that say something different.”
It was a nice touch/zing.
Odie1941 on October 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Make that -’the ferret-like’ Krugman.
slickwillie2001 on October 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM