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Mitt Romneys campaign has fired back at questions about his tenure at Bain Capital and his failure to release tax returns by blaming President Obamas campaign for not wanting to talk about the economy. Given a chance to talk about the economy this morning, though, a Romney adviser failed to deliver specifics about how his plan would boost economic growth while also balancing the budget, as Romney claims he will do.
As ThinkProgress has noted, Romneys plan to provide a massive tax cut to the rich would blow a hole in the federal budget Romney promises to balance by 2020. When MSNBCs Luke Russert asked Romney adviser Tara Wall how Romney would offset the lost revenue, she failed to offer any specifics, telling Americans they could instead research his plan to find them. When Russert returned to the subject, Wall again failed to deliver an answer, saying Romneys business experience is the reason he would balance the budget:
RUSSERT: What are the offsets? What are we specifically going to do to balance the budget?
WALL: Well, I believe Americans will hear a lot more about Governor Romneys plan, and if you want to see in depth what his plan is, you can certainly research that and look at that more in depth. But overall, there have been a number of new regulations, over-zealous regulations, on small businesses enacted by this administration, and we have to look at those things. [...]
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/19/547281/romney-adviser-cant-specify-how-romneys-plan-would-reduce-the-debt-because
ProSense
(116,464 posts)...I actually don't know Myth's plan. You can do some research. If you find out, let me know. Until then, Obama smoked pot.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)...and this spokeswoman did just that.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)for the rest of the summer.
You've got to remember who he's working for, and it ain't the 99%.