{"id":2373,"date":"2012-08-03T08:43:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T12:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2012-08-03T08:43:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T12:43:02","slug":"study-romney-plan-increases-taxes-on-95-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/08\/study-romney-plan-increases-taxes-on-95-of-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Romney Plan Increases Taxes On 95% Of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has been on the defensive today over a new study that found his tax plan would most likely increase taxes on the middle class in order to pay for a hefty tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. The study (pdf) by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center scrutinizes Romney&#8217;s plan to pay for a variety of tax cuts by closing tax loopholes. It concludes that under the most progressive approach possible, Romney&#8217;s plan would give an $87,000 tax cut to people making more than $1 million a year but require 95 percent of Americans to pay more taxes\u2014on average, $500 more per year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/08\/study-romney-plan-increases-taxes-95-americans\" target=\"_blank\">Study: Romney Plan Increases Taxes On 95% Of Americans | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has been on the defensive today over a new study that found his tax plan would most likely increase taxes on the middle class in order to pay for a hefty tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. The study (pdf) by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center scrutinizes Romney&#8217;s plan to pay for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,4,22],"tags":[301,1353,1352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}