it s the charitable deduction. it s the education deduction. it s the health care deduction. and mitt romney does not have the courage to tell the american people what he s planning. but ed, if he were to take on those deductions, those deductions strike at the heart of the middle class and that s why he s unwilling to tell us the truth. and so that s why we re getting all of this fuzzy math. according to a keizer foundation study, a medicare voucher system would raise premiums. the romney campaign says it wasn t based on their plan but they don t provide details on it either. so how do the democrats keep up the fight against an opponent that lies and denies so often? well, we ve got to tell the truth. the fact is, if we just look at this romney budget. paul ryan was chosen to be the vice presidential candidate in large part because of his budget. what does his budget do?
backing what paul ryan is saying. you know rob portman. i know rob very well. but the fact is he s lying. the only way that the tax plan works, the only thing he can do that really has money in savings is the mortgage deduction. it s the charitable deduction. it s the education deduction. it s the health care deduction. and mitt romney does not have the courage to tell the american people what he s planning. but ed, if he were to take on those deductions, those deductions strike at the heart of the middle class and that s why he s unwilling to tell us the truth. and so that s why we re getting all of this fuzzy math. according to a keizer foundation study, a medicare voucher system would raise premiums. the romney campaign says it wasn t based on their plan but they don t provide details on it
loopholes is cut the mortgage deduction from middle-class people. cut the health care deduction, middle-class people. take away their ability to get a tax break to send their kids to college is he wrong about that? he is wrong about that. how s that? you can cut the tax rates 20% special preserve the important preferences for middle-class taxpayers. not mathematically possible. it s been done before. it is what we are proposing it has never been done before. it has been done a couple of times. jack kennedy lowered tax rates. now you are jack kennedy. republican [overlapping dialogue] republicans and democrats have worked together on this. i understand you are not used to bipartisan deals. we told them what we are going to do. ronald reagan said here s what we are going to cut. fill in the details. that s how you get things done. let me say it this way republican congress, working
that our elected leaders will and do lie constantly. gone is patrick moynahan and his adage of you re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. in the age of post truth politics, we no longer share a baseline of what counts as a fact. that was clearly on display this week at the one and only vice presidential debate. he ll keep saying this $5 trillion plan i suppose. it s been discredited by six other studies and their own deputy campaign manager acknowledged it wasn t correct. the only way to find $5 trillion in loopholes is cut the mortgage cut the health care deduction for middle class people. to send their kids to college. that s why is he wrong approximate that. he is wrong about that. it s at fact that the vice president found the congressman to be hilarious.
trillion in loopholes is cut the mortgage deduction from middle-class people, cut the health care deduction, middle-class people, take away their ability to get a tax break to send their kids to college, that s is he wrong about that? he is wrong about that. you can cut tax rates 20% and preserve the important preferences for middle-class taxpayers. not mathematically possible. it s been done before. this is what we are proposing it has never been done before. it s been done a couple of times increase growth. ronald reagan. now you are jack kennedy. [overlapping dialogue] republicans and democrats have worked together on this that s right. i understand you are not used we told you what we are going to do. when we did it with reagan, he said, we are going to do this. that s how you get things done. let me say it this way from the republican congress, working bipartisanly?