{"id":2769,"date":"2012-10-05T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2012-10-05T09:48:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:48:33","slug":"romneys-own-website-refutes-his-claim-about-tax-cuts-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/10\/romneys-own-website-refutes-his-claim-about-tax-cuts-for-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney&#8217;s Own Website Refutes His Claim About Tax Cuts For The Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IRS_building.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2773\" title=\"IRS_building\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IRS_building.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IRS_building.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IRS_building-150x147.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tax cuts for the rich are\u00a0<a style=\"color: #990000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/1714\/taxes.aspx\">unpopular<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/01\/31\/415690\/tax-cuts-cause-deficits\/\">unaffordable<\/a>\u00a0and have repeatedly\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/news\/2012\/08\/01\/11987\/infographic-seven-graphs-that-show-supply-side-doesnt-work\/\">failed to deliver any measurable economic benefits<\/a>\u00a0to the rest of the country. So it\u2019s no wonder that during last night\u2019s presidential debate, Mitt Romney didn\u2019t want to embrace a policy of massive new tax cuts for the rich. \u201cI will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans,\u201d Romney said.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if Romney really was abandoning the failed theory of \u201csupply-side\u201d economics, but his actual tax proposals<a style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/10\/04\/959181\/at-first-debate-mitt-romney-admits-that-he-would-absolutely-not-support-his-own-tax-plan\/\">tell a very different story<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\">. Below is a screenshot from\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\/issues\/tax\">Romney\u2019s own website<\/a>, taken this morning:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/10\/04\/963851\/romney-website-tax-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romney&#8217;s Own Website Refutes His Claim About Tax Cuts For The Rich | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax cuts for the rich are\u00a0unpopular,\u00a0unaffordable\u00a0and have repeatedly\u00a0\u00a0failed to deliver any measurable economic benefits\u00a0to the rest of the country. So it\u2019s no wonder that during last night\u2019s presidential debate, Mitt Romney didn\u2019t want to embrace a policy of massive new tax cuts for the rich. \u201cI will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans,\u201d&#8230;<\/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":[218,832,301,120,1150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"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=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}