Discourse.net
On the fringes of the public sphere
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Comment Policy
  • Contact
  • My Publications
  • Archives
← Your Evening Newsreel
The $23,800 Bug Bite →

Facts

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Michael Froomkin

John Perr has 15 Things the GOP Doesn’t Want You to Know About Taxes and the Debt (complete with charts!) at Crooks and Liars.

Probably too much information all at once for many people, which I suspect is a big part of why the Romney campaign is doing as well as it is. Here are shortcuts to each item:

  1. President Obama Cut Taxes for Almost All Working Americans
  2. Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt
  3. George W. Bush Doubled the National Debt
  4. Reagan Raised Debt Ceiling 17 Times, Bush Seven
  5. Tax Cuts Don’t Pay for Themselves
  6. Almost All Working Americans Pay Taxes
  7. The GOP’s “Job Creators” Don’t Create Jobs
  8. Low Capital Gains Taxes Fuel Income Inequality…
  9. …But Not Investment
  10. The Estate Tax Has Virtually No Impact on Family Farms and Businesses
  11. Income Inequality Has Reached an 80 Year High…
  12. …While the Federal Tax Burden Has Hit a 60 Year Low
  13. Romney-Ryan Plan Another Massive Tax Cut Windfall for the Wealthy
  14. Romney, Ryan Won’t Say Which of the $1 Trillion in Tax Breaks GOP Will End
  15. Romney-Ryan Will Add More Debt Than President Obama

Related

This entry was posted in Econ & Money. Bookmark the permalink.
← Your Evening Newsreel
The $23,800 Bug Bite →
  • A Personal Blog
    by Michael Froomkin
    Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law
    University of Miami School of Law
    My Publications | e-mail

    All opinions on this blog are those of the author(s) and not their employer(s) unelss otherwise specified.
  • Who Reads Discourse.net?

    Readers describe themselves.
    Please join in.
  • Reader Map

  • RSS Recent Bluessky Posts

    • Interesting đź§µ August 13, 2026 Michael Froomkin
    • We have such a great immigration clinic at @miamilawschool.bsky.social August 13, 2026 Michael Froomkin
    • This is how you do it. August 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
    • “The Vesting Clauses Are Not Law” (forthcoming 2026 in the Iowa Law Review) argues that it is a mistake to read the Constitution’s Vesting Clauses as sources of substantive law. Doing so produces either a contradiction in the Constitution’s text or implications that are not palatable for formalists. August 12, 2026 David Froomkin
    • Yikes! Chemical testing reveals that lots of household and personal care products, including many so-called organic ones, contain undisclosed and sometimes toxic chemicals. But where is the actual list of products with secret chemicals? pubs.acs.org/ehnea2/artic... August 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
  • Recent Comments

    • Jane Moscowitz on Early Voting Now Open for Miami-Dade August 2026 Election
    • Ed Vidal on 2026 Miami-Dade Voter Guide to the Judicial Elections
    • Eric on 2026 Primary Voter Guide is Coming!
    • Emily Brown on Introduction
    • KK Ho on Introduction
  • Subscribe to Blog via Email

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 52 other subscribers
  • Categories

  • Listening

    Froomkin's Pandora Quickmix
  • Follow

    • Subscribe via RSS
    • Comments RSS
    • Twitter
  • Creative Commons License
    © 2003-2024 A. Michael Froomkin. Unless otherwise stated, or copyright by others is indicated, textual content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license. This permits non-profit reproduction so long as credit is given to the author and any resulting work is shared under the same or similar license. Links are appreciated. Library photo in header © 2008 Alex Nikada.
  • RSS Jotwell

    • The State as Fact-Maker: The Fourth Function of the Fourth Branch August 13, 2026 Wendy Wagner
    • Owning the AI Revolution August 12, 2026 George S. Georgiev
    • How Far Does Worklaw Truly Reach? Does Anyone Really Know? August 11, 2026 Joseph Seiner
    • The Myth of American Testamentary Freedom August 10, 2026 Goldburn Maynard
    • Gaming the Standard August 7, 2026 Christopher J. Robinette
    • Strings Attached: Science Regulation by Science Funders August 6, 2026 Nicholson Price
  • RSS Blenderlaw

    • eu commissioner didier reynders to visit miamilaw february 23, 2023 February 8, 2023
    • a ukrainian student at miami law in her own words June 3, 2022
    • canefunder for ukrainian students April 15, 2022
    • george bermann on international arbitration and eu law February 25, 2022
    • peter lederer August 10, 2021
    • comments on carbon border tax proposals July 30, 2021
Discourse.net