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		<title>Mitt Romney&#8217;s debate performance consisted of 27 myths within 38 minutes talk time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney&#8217;s debate performance consisted of 27 myths within 38 minutes talk time. What other avenue does he have when he cannot even identify with half of the American people, and is simply out of touch with the average Joe Blow? As such, and as an Independent voter &#8212; I would rather have 4 more [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mitt Romney&#8217;s debate performance consisted of 27 myths within 38 minutes talk time.</p>
<p>What other avenue does he have when he cannot even identify with half of the American people, and is simply out of touch with the average Joe Blow?</p>
<p>As such, and as an Independent voter &#8212; I would rather have 4 more years of President Obama,  than to have  8 more years of Mr. Romney and his crony capitalism ideas.  Romney is not a bipartisan individual, in</p>
<div id="attachment_1960" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/10/05/mitt-romneys-debate-performance-consisted-of-27-myths-within-38-minutes-talk-time/mitt-romney-bain/" rel="attachment wp-att-1960"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1960" src="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/files/2012/10/mitt-romney-bain-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mitt Romney made a fortune from businesses he helped destroy.</p></div>
<p>fact, he has toed the Tea Party extremist line.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll give you at least 10 myths, but you will need to go to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/04/958801/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes/">Think Progress</a> for the rest of them:</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong>1) “[G]et us energy independent, North American energy independent. That creates about 4 million jobs”</strong>. Romney’s plan for “energy independence” actually relies heavily on a study that assumes the U.S. continues with fuel efficiency standards set by the Obama administration. For instance, he uses Citigroup research based off the assumption that “‘the United States will continue with strict fuel economy standards that will lower its oil demand.” Since he promises to undo the Obama administration’s new <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/28/744811/romney-opposes-fuel-efficiency-standards-actually-moving-us-toward-energy-independence/">fuel efficiency standards,</a> he would cut oil consumption savings of 2 million barrels per day by 2025.</p>
<p><strong>2) “I don’t have a $5 trillion tax cut. I don’t have a tax cut of a scale that you’re talking about.”</strong> A Tax Policy Center analysis of Romney’s proposal for a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut in all federal income tax rates, eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax, eliminating the estate tax and other tax reductions, would reduce federal revenue $480 billion in 2015. This amounts to $5 trillion over the decade.</p>
<p><strong>3) “My view is that we ought to provide tax relief to people in the middle class. But I’m not going to reduce the share of taxes paid by high-income people.”</strong> If Romney hopes to provide tax relief to the middle class, then his $5 trillion tax cut would add to the deficit. There are not enough deductions in the tax code that primarily benefit rich people to make his math work.</p>
<p><strong>4) “My — my number-one principal is, there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit. I want to underline that: no tax cut that adds to the deficit.”</strong> As the Tax Policy Center <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/01/620561/tpc-romney-study-taxes/">concluded</a>, Romney’s plan can’t both exempt middle class families from tax cuts and remain revenue neutral. “He’s promised all these things and he can’t do them all. In order for him to cover the cost of his tax cut without adding to the deficit, he’d have to find a way to raise taxes on middle income people or people making less than $200,000 a year,” the Center <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/mitt-romney-floats-17000-limit-on-tax-deductions.php">found</a>.</p>
<p><strong>5) “I will not under any circumstances raise taxes on middle-income families. I will lower taxes on middle-income families. Now, you cite a study. There are six other studies that looked at the study you describe and say it’s completely wrong.”</strong> The studies Romney cites actually <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09/10/819411/romney-tax-studies-five/">further prove</a> that Romney would, in fact, have to raise taxes on the middle class if he were to keep his promise not to lose revenue with his tax rate reduction.</p>
<p><strong>6) “I saw a study that came out today that said you’re going to raise taxes by $3,000 to $4,000 on middle-income families.”</strong> Romney is pointing to <a href="http://www.aei.org/files/2012/10/01/-a-simple-measure-of-the-distributional-burden-of-debt-accumulation_210316287852.pdf">this study</a> from the American Enterprise Institute. It actually found that rather than raise taxes to pay down the debt, the Obama administration’s policies — those contained directly in his budget — would <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/03/953041/romney-debunk-middle-class/">reduce the share of taxes</a> that go toward servicing the debt by $1,289.89 per taxpayer in the $100,000 to $200,000 range.</p>
<p><strong>7) “And the reason is because small business pays that individual rate; 54 percent of America’s workers work in businesses that are taxed not at the corporate tax rate, but at the individual tax rate….97 percent of the businesses are not — not taxed at the 35 percent tax rate, they’re taxed at a lower rate. But those businesses that are in the last 3 percent of businesses happen to employ half — half of all the people who work in small business.”</strong> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/10/514032/speaker-boehner-small-business-lies/">Far less than half</a> of the people affected by the expiration of the upper income tax cuts get any of their income at all from a small businesses. And those people could very well be receiving speaking fees or book royalties, which qualify as “small business income” but don’t have a direct impact on job creation. It’s actually <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/03/636501/boushey-small-business-tax-cuts/">hard to find a small business</a> who think that they will be hurt if the marginal tax rate on income earned above $250,000 per year is increased.</p>
<p><strong>8) “Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land. On government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half.”</strong> Oil production from federal lands <a href="http://www.eenews.net/assets/2012/04/03/document_gw_01.pdf">is higher, not lower</a>: Production from federal lands is up slightly in 2011 when compared to 2007. And the oil and gas industry is sitting on <a href="http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/upload/Final-Report.pdf">7,000 approved permits</a> to drill, that it hasn’t begun exploring or developing.</p>
<p><strong>9) “The president’s put it in place as much public debt — almost as much debt held by the public as all prior presidents combined.”</strong> This is not even close to being true. When Obama took office, the national debt stood at <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/iowa-debate-fact-check/">$10.626 trillion</a>. Now the national debt is over $16 trillion. That $5.374 trillion increase is nowhere near as much debt as all the other presidents combined.</p>
<p><strong>10) “That’s why the National Federation of Independent Businesses said your plan will kill 700,000 jobs. I don’t want to kill jobs in this environment.”</strong> That study, produced by <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/national-federation-independent-businesses">a right-wing advocacy organization</a>, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/17/fact-check-industry-financed-study-gets-president-s-tax-cuts-wrong">doesn’t analyze</a> what Obama has actually proposed.</p>
<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/04/958801/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes/">FULL STORY HERE&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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