{"id":2765,"date":"2012-10-05T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2012-10-05T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:55:54","slug":"romney-goes-on-offense-pays-for-it-in-first-wave-of-fact-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/10\/romney-goes-on-offense-pays-for-it-in-first-wave-of-fact-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Goes On Offense, Pays For It In First Wave Of Fact Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a sample of what’s being reported about the truthiness of what Obama and Romney had to say Wednesday night on stage at the University of Denver:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2014 One of the biggest disputes was over tax cuts. Obama argued that Romney’s plan to stimulate the economy includes a tax cut totaling $5 trillion that, Obama said, isn’t possible because the Republican nominee is also promising to spend money in other places.<\/p>\n

Romney flatly disputed that number. “First of all, I don’t have a $5 trillion tax cut,” he said.<\/p>\n

Who’s right? The Washington Post’s Fact Checker says the facts on this one are on Obama’s side. The New York Times notes that Romney “has proposed cutting all marginal tax rates by 20 percent \u2014 which would in and of itself cut tax revenue by $5 trillion.”<\/p>\n

FactCheck.org has weighed in too, tweeting during the debate that “Romney says he will pay for $5T tax cut without raising deficit or raising taxes on middle class. Experts say that’s not possible.”<\/p>\n

PolitiFact has given a “mostly true” rating to the charge that “Romney is proposing a tax plan “that would give millionaires another tax break and raise taxes on middle class families by up to $2,000 a year.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0Romney Goes On Offense, Pays For It In First Wave Of Fact Checks : It’s All Politics : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a sample of what’s being reported about the truthiness of what Obama and Romney had to say Wednesday night on stage at the University of Denver:   \u2014 One of the biggest disputes was over tax cuts. Obama argued that Romney’s plan to stimulate the economy includes a tax cut totaling $5 trillion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[218,1561,832,42,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}