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Cutter: Okay Fine, We've Been Lying About Romney's Tax Plan
Townhall.com ^ | October 6, 2012 | Guy Benson

Posted on 10/06/2012 4:36:53 PM PDT by Kaslin

One of the strongest elements of Mitt Romney's spectacular debate performance was his decisive rejoinder to the president's oft-repeated allegation that the Republican plans to raise taxes on middle class families.  Obama said Romney has designs on an unpaid-for $5 trillion tax cut that would eventually necessitate higher tax bills for average Americans.  Romney flatly rejected the claim by calling it false, then explained what he actually has in mind.  But the president returned to the "$5 trillion" well on several subsequent occasions, prompting more rebuttals from his challenger.  FactCheck.org and CNN reviewed Obama's accusation, and found it wanting.  "Not true," declared the former organization.  As for the cable news channel, well, just watch this:
 

Obama Campaign Concedes Their 5 Trillion Attack Is Not True

Mary Katharine Ham provides a partial transcript:
 

BURNETT: Stephanie, let me ask you about that. Because here at CNN, we fact checked that, that $5 trillion in tax cuts and we’ve come and said that’s not true. Mitt Romney has not promised that. because he’s also going to be closing loopholes and deductions. So his tax cut wouldn’t be anywhere near that size.

CUTTER: So you’re disputing the size of the tax cut? Or are you disputing also how he’s going to pay for it?

BURNETT: We’re disputing the size.

CUTTER: Erin, he has campaigned on lowering tax rates by 20% for everybody, including those in the top 1%. that was one of the main selling points in the Republican primary.

BURNETT: So you’re saying if you lower them by 20% you get a $5 trillion tab, right?

CUTTER: It’s a $5 trillion tab.

BURNETT: But when he closes deductions he won’t be anywhere near $5 trillion. That’s our analysis.

CUTTER: Well with, okay, stipulated, it won’t be near $5 trillion, but it’s also not going to be the sum of $5 trillion in the loopholes that he’s going to close.

Well, well, well.  One of the few on-message attacks Obama launched against Romney on Wednesday night was this $5 trillion line, which has since been refuted by fact-checkers -- whose verdicts, you'll recall, the Obama campaign take "very, very seriously."  But under intense questioning, even one of Chicago's most skilled liars was forced to admit that the claim is wrong.  Will Obama continue trotting it out anyway?  Of course he will.  His campaign is still running ads hitting Romney on "outsourcing," an attack fact-checkers dismantled ("no evidence") months ago.  Why is Obama obstinately promoting false narratives?  I'll let a promising young politician explain the cycnical ploy:
 

Obama 2008: "If you don't have any fresh ideas, you use stale tactics to scare the voters"


Numerous experts have also determined that Mitt Romney's tax plan is most assuredly not the mathematically-impossible threat that Obama has described.  Indeed, some have concluded that Obama's policies are most likely to result in tax increases on the middle class -- something this president has already done through the Obamacare mandate tax.  Romney's not exaggerating when he lambastes the Democratic ticket for proposing huge tax hikes.  Joe Biden himself has confirmed the GOP attack, and done so proudly.

 

UPDATE - Sure enough, Obama's still lying about this:
 

President Obama Contradicts His Own Campaign On Veracity Of $5 Trillion Tax Cut


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; barackobama; cnn; dnctalkingpoints; factcheck; lyingliars; mittromney; obamalies
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1 posted on 10/06/2012 4:36:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
"The rich" don't spend every penny they can get their hands on on Escalades and $500 sneakers like Eric Holder's people do.

"The rich" got to be "the rich" by investing their excess income in businesses that generate profits and taxes and employ people who pay taxes on the wages they receive from those businesses.

"The rich" create sustainable jobs, i.e., jobs that create value.

Government can only create unsustainable jobs, i.e., jobs that kill private-sector jobs created by the investments of "the rich."

2 posted on 10/06/2012 4:42:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

exactly


3 posted on 10/06/2012 4:44:36 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

So I guess the real Mitt Romney did show up.

Which means every time Barry the Liar said the real Mitt Romney didn’t show up, Barry the Liar was in fact still lying.


4 posted on 10/06/2012 4:45:42 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Kaslin

This Cutter chick is just pure evil.


5 posted on 10/06/2012 4:51:57 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (Lets institute SARAH-ia law in America!)
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To: Kaslin
FactCheck.org and CNN?

Wow.. even FactCheck.org and the most busted news source's flak chuckers protecting Obama walked away from that one.

6 posted on 10/06/2012 4:54:14 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Kaslin; All


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7 posted on 10/06/2012 4:59:15 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The rich" don't spend every penny they can get their hands on on Escalades and $500 sneakers like Eric Holder's people do.

That's quite a broad brush you're painting with. A little too broad, IMHO. It seems like the kind of stereotyping that could cause unnecessary bias against the conservative side of the political spectrum.

There's no need to disparage people based solely on race, which is what the phrase "like Eric Holder's people do" seems to imply. It serves no constructive purpose that I can see.

JMHO...

8 posted on 10/06/2012 5:03:43 PM PDT by sargon
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To: Kaslin

Crazy Eyes Cutter... what a NUT JOB.


9 posted on 10/06/2012 5:04:35 PM PDT by Third Person (I'm in my prime.)
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To: chris37

Don’t all liberals lie?


10 posted on 10/06/2012 5:07:03 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The rich" got to be "the rich" by investing their excess income in businesses that generate profits and taxes and employ people who pay taxes on the wages they receive from those businesses.

Here's an interesting book on that thought: The Millionaire Next Door.

11 posted on 10/06/2012 5:07:43 PM PDT by upchuck (I miss my dog Snoopy. May 16, 1997-September 24, 2012 -- 15 years, 4 months. Forever in my heart.)
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To: fkabuckeyesrule
she sure is.

As evil as they come

12 posted on 10/06/2012 5:08:26 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: chris37
So I guess the real Mitt Romney did show up.

Well, the real Obama certainly did. It's just that so few on the left have ever seen him, they didn't recognize him.

13 posted on 10/06/2012 5:08:47 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Kaslin

Erin Burnett has been channeling the late great Mark Haines lately.


14 posted on 10/06/2012 5:15:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Kaslin

bump


15 posted on 10/06/2012 5:15:37 PM PDT by angelsonmyside (Someone please send the Loser in Chief a "President For Dummy's" book.)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, they do, but Obama is the Prince of Lies.


16 posted on 10/06/2012 5:19:04 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The rich" got to be "the rich" by investing their excess income in businesses that generate profits and taxes and employ people who pay taxes on the wages they receive from those businesses.

All of them? Really?

I think there are a good many rich people who inherited money and invested overseas. That doesn't create a single American job. So let's quit with the fantasy that all we need to do to create jobs is cut taxes, because it just doesn't sell, as is confirmed by the polls. The leverage in decreasing regulations is far greater in terms of both net revenue and GDP.

The principal benefit of cutting corporate taxes does is attracting foreign investment. Without cutting regulations, that won't happen anyway.

17 posted on 10/06/2012 5:21:32 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: sargon
You know, I don't know if you are Black or you are White...I really don't care other than if you are Black then what was said about the Escalades etc. is pretty demoralizing I would imagine. Black Conservatives have worked as hard to attain their status in life as everyone else has and then to be thrown back into the cess pool of stereotypes has to suck. As a White person, that stereotype hurts because we should be so much further along and ahead of this type of perspective...but we aren't and I BLAME ONE MAN FOR THIS HORRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS! Obama. We were so much further along in racial understanding and acceptance four years ago. He has set us back to the 50’s. White people have had it with O and it spreads out to encompass “His people.” I absolutely hate it but that's what I am seeing. Not good.
18 posted on 10/06/2012 5:42:29 PM PDT by ladyL
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To: ladyL

“...to be thrown back into the cess pool of stereotypes has to suck.”

Racially broad-brushing people is so destructive to the conservative cause. It happens on this site way too often. All it does is reinforce the liberal line about conservatives being racist, makes outreach that much harder, and keeps people from joining us. That is certainly true in my family.


19 posted on 10/06/2012 6:07:49 PM PDT by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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To: chris37
Yes, they do, but Obama is the Prince of Lies.

Yes, they do, but Obama is the Princess of Lies.

There. Fixed it.

20 posted on 10/06/2012 6:17:45 PM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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