Anderson Cooper calls out Romney for claiming ‘blog posts’ are tax plan studies

Source: Raw Story

In his “Keeping Them Honest” segment, Cooper observed that Romney had pointed to “six studies” to defend the tax plan, “but neither he nor his running mate Paul Ryan have ever specified which tax deductions they’ll cap, which loopholes they’ll close, or frankly give out many details at all.”

“Despite that handicap, a bipartisan panel of three authors for the Tax Policy Center examined the plan and concluded that there’s really no way of making the numbers work, that is unless the middle class pays more. Thousands of dollars more per family, according to the authors,” the CNN host added.


But recently Romney told NBC’s David Gregory that the Tax Policy Center was biased and that he had “five different economic studies, including one oat Harvard, Princeton and AEI and a couple at the Wall Street Journal” to back his proposal. Romney later increased that total to six studies while facing President Barack Obama at the first presidential debate.

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“The suggestion is that these are full-blown academic studies,” Cooper noted on Monday. “Actually, three are blog posts, one is a Wall Street Journal op-ed. In the Wall Street Journal piece, Martin Feldstein, who’s also a campaign advisor, makes the math work but only by using a different definition of middle class than Mr. Romney uses in his own plan.”



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