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Bill USA

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Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:55 PM Feb 2012

Romney's Budget Plan: $6 TRILLION in Lost Revenue over next decade (Tax Policy Center) - USA Today

Romney's Budget Plan doesn't Balance

The Republican front-runner has shown no sign of producing a credible plan to "get America to a balanced budget," as he promised in his Florida victory speech.

Most editorials are accompanied by an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature that allows readers to reach conclusions based on both sides of an argument rather than just the Editorial Board's point of view.
Romney's fiscal proposals are only slightly less fantastic than the moon-colony plans of rival Newt Gingrich. Romney mixes massive and immediate tax cuts with smaller spending cuts, the biggest of which would be phased in over time. Collectively, they would make the deficit bigger over the next decade, not smaller.

Romney would make the so-called Bush tax cuts permanent, slash the top corporate income tax from 35% to 25%, eliminate the tax on inherited wealth and eliminate the tax on capital gains, dividends and interest for people making less than $200,000 a year. These and other tax cuts would reduce annual revenue by $600 billion in 2015, according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. That would translate to roughly $6 trillion in lost revenue over the coming decade.
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