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October 08, 2012

Romney's Tax Plan Is Full Of Lies

Lies by Obama and the media (BIRM).

See, that's the spin about the "$5 trillion in taxes" that the despicable Obama campaign came out with after Mitt Romney hit their strawman version of his tax plan like Curtis LeMay over Tokyo during last week's debate: Romney was just lying.

To set up the original talking point, which Obama repeated no fewer than three times in the debate, the Obama campaign represented a hacktastic, left-leaning study on Romney's plan as "independent" and "non-partisan". Of course their media mouthpieces dutifully repeated these claims ... one instance of which is now being used in an ad that's too shameless for even NBC to stomach. And that's saying a lot.

In the clip used by the Obama campaign, [Andrea] Mitchell quotes a liberal group’s claim that Romney’s tax plan will cost $4.8 trillion and will therefore raise taxes on the middle class, a charge that other, more credible analysts, have debunked. This is a point on which even liberal fact checkers have concluded that the Democrats’ pants are on fire, but Mitchell loyally spouted the allegation on the air as if it were objective fact.

And, never to be deterred when called out on these low tactics, they're continuing to misrepresent the plan in fundraising emails.

"Even the studies that Romney has cited to claim his plan adds up still show he would need to raise middle-class taxes," said the Obama campaign press release. "In fact, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein and Princeton economist Harvey Rosen both concede that paying for Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000."

But that's not true. Princeton professor Harvey Rosen tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email that the Obama campaign is misrepresenting his paper on Romney's tax plan ...

So don't forget, Mitt Romney lies.


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