Romney and Ryan will let the middle class fail in America. Obama is trying to save it.

The election is NOT going to hinge on the minutia of budget proposals. It is going to be about whether or not voters will take a chance on 4 more years of left wing governance, which has brought us to the brink of disaster. Obama's rock star persona may very well prevail in this, and we may sail off the cliff, with the comfort of knowing we have the coolest, most egalitarian head of state ever. NEW PARAGRAPH: Stopping this train wreck is the job of Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan. The selection of Ryan was brilliant on many levels, first because it reassures the Republican base that the Romney administration will be conservative. But more importantly, having a intellectual gentleman on the ticket, he will highlight the lowball Obama mudslinging for what it is. These gutter attacks against Ryan will make Obama look very small. NEW PARAGRAPH: To correct one point Scot makes here: The Bush tax cuts did not go into full effect until 2003, and the surplus was already gone by then, largely as a result of the economic decline after 9-11. The spending in the Bush years was certainly too high, but the growth in tax revenues between 2003 and 2007 exceeded the growth in tax revenues in the four years after the 1993 tax hikes. Economic growth is the way to grow tax revenues, and economic stagnation is what leads to trillion dollar deficits, as President Obama has proven.

People have a choice,if their paying attention to our fiscal situation they should see how dire it is. Sure, we can raise taxes, an extra 100 billion a year, then what.SS and medicare have 50 trillion in unfunded liabilities, how do we handle that. the federal budget is on track again this year to add another one trillion dollars to our deficit, great. We certainly can continue to keep all these programs you listed, but they have to be paid for, how about this, every budget every program, takes a hit.We have government employees going to Las Vegas on our dime(or Chinas) partying up, drinking in hot tubs, costing us millions, good place to start cutting.Education, really, you do realize we spend more per student than any other country yet we rank 37th, see what money can do. Undecided voters certainly do have a choice.

So now I'm interested in the specifics on those tax "loopholes". Will Romney offer any? Whatever it is, I'm sure it will never fall one bit on the backs of those who lounge around the pool or the tennis court while they listen to the sound of their money growing. It will never address issues around tax "benefits" in the Cayman Islands, or Bermuda or Switzerland. Where are those loopholes Mitt? I can't hear you!

The Bush presidency brought us to the brink of disaster, and a Romney presidency would undoubtedly push us over the edge into complete economic disaster and international crisis. Returning to the failed Bush-era economic policies that both Romney and Ryan want to implement combined with their mutual incompetence in foreign affairs would spell absolute ruin for the country.

we have added 5 trillion to our deficit in 3 1/2 years, what about those policies?

Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion plus and you want to return to those disastrous policies? The near-depression under Bush reduced the size of the economy while government spending stayed steady - if you have less revenue but spending stays constant, you will have larger deficits. Allowing the Bush tax cuts to stay in place sustains those deficits. You're spouting propaganda.

With his choice of Ryan, Romney has signaled that he knows he cannot win the election and would rather make it a showdown between the Tea Bagger Party and the rest of the country. The Tea Baggers' hijacking of the republican party will be rejected again.

Your correction is no correction at all. 9/11 was 2001 and money was taken for military use, an unfunded prescription plan, and a housing bubble. When the tax cuts and bailouts came it deepened the deficit even more. Any analysis shows the combination of these 4 items created almost all our present problem. http://re,ality-based-world.org/2011/02/16/sources-of-the-us-budget-deficit-with-data/ Here's one display of the data but pick any other one you want. The American people still hold the Bush years accountable for the present deficit and economic problems. They also realize that Congress(approval rating 11 to 13%) has not acted in their interest to help by investing in local governments, infrastructure, and temporary unemployment benefits. The blame in survey after survey holds our legislators most accountable for not helping to relieve suffering. Until squeamish investors loosen up their idle cash government steps in to keep people afloat. When such so called "entrepreneurs" get their patriotism on, then maybe with some new rules we can prosper.

A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper: "Go to sleep, everything is alright" I close my eyes Then I drift away Into the magic night I softly sway Oh smile and pray Like dreamers do Then I fall asleep To dream my dreams of you

Goodbye mortgage tax deduction so Thurston and Muffy can buy another yacht!

The Paul Ryan selection for Mitt's V.P. candidate has most probably lost Romney this old dud's vote to dump Barry the O. Ryan is far too willing to hurt people of several classes while attempting to sell voters that his way is the American way. The nation went through his way once, when the robber barons were building railroads and oil wells and digging coal on the backs of Chinese, Irish and Slovakian immigrants who took the jobs for lack of alternatives. Now there is neither such serfdom nor an early 21st Century industrialization to justify a general good from the cruel labor. Ryan wants to deconstruct the good of the mid and late 20th Century social programs, whether or not they have benefitted millions, probably including members of his own family. This is unaccepable, even the more because neither Ryan nor Romney have any overseas experience upon which to construct a foreign policy worth anything to the nation. The two of them leading the nation would be as bad as Barry the O and his voluble veep, just with different ways for the government to get its greasy fingers stuck in my change purse.

Lizzy the Bankruptcy Professor runs ads extolling China's development of its infrastructure and the spending Chinese taxpayers support (to stay out of jail). Surely, Lizzy will want to join Barry the O in raising taxes (probably for everybody but the food stamp set and illegal immigrants who are under 30) so she can get construction union members back to work being paid $25/hour straigh time to dig holes while their state police buddies are paid $45/hour or more to sit on their duffs in parked cruisers nodding for their too -long overtime shifts.

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You are ignoring the huge tax increases coming under Obamacare.

One problem w/ the study is it is not dynamic and does not show different scenarios. For example, why use the Dems "rich" threshold of 200/250k? Where is the breakeven point? They also make assumptions about what is on/off the table for closing exemptions/loopholes. How do they know that? What if they changed some of those? An analysis should show breakeven as well as a good, better and best scenario.