<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div><span>Courtesy of the Political Wire at:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span><a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/01/romney_tax_plan_would_raise_taxes_on_95.html"><a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/01/romney_tax_plan_would_raise_taxes_on_95.html">http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/01/romney_tax_plan_would_raise_taxes_on_95.html</a></a></div><div> <br><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span><h2 style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(182, 11, 3); font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/01/romney_tax_plan_would_raise_taxes_on_95.html" title="Romney Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes on 95%" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(182, 11, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Romney Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes on 95%</a></h2></span></div><div><span>A new Brookings Institution/Tax Policy Center study finds Mitt Romney's plan to overhaul the tax code would produce cuts for the richest 5% of Americans -- and larger bills for everybody else.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The Washington Post notes the researchers seemed "to bend over backward to be fair to the Republican presidential candidate" but "none of it helped Romney."</span><br><span></span><br><span>"His rate-cutting plan for individuals would reduce tax collections by about $360 billion in 2015, the study says. To avoid increasing deficits -- as Romney has pledged -- the plan would have to generate an equivalent amount of revenue by slashing tax breaks for mortgage interest, employer-provided health care, education, medical expenses, state and local taxes, and child care -- all breaks that benefit the middle class."</span><br><span></span><br><span>---------------</span><br><span></span><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">The Brookings Institution/Tax Policy Center Study</span><div><br><span></span><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/08/01-tax-reform-brown-gale-looney">http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/08/01-tax-reform-brown-gale-looney</a></div><div> <br><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"If not us, who?</span><br><span>If not now, when?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Unknown</span></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></body></html>