@WestRiverrat, right, the fabled Laffer Curve. If we cut taxes for rich people, that wealth will trickle down and employ more people, who will end up paying more taxes… so those rich tax cuts will pay for themselves!
And by the same logic, Obama’s stimulus didn’t increase the deficit at all. It pays for itself! Because the stimulus act saved 1 million jobs. That’s 1 million more tax payers! So the stimulus must be close to revenue neutral over 10 or 20 or however many years, right?
Right? Oh, I forgot. We only apply bullshit logic like that to GOP plans.
Anyway, let’s do the math! You say Romney’s tax plan will magically create 12 million jobs. I guess these are 12 million jobs that would not have existed without Romney’s plan, right? No? Oh, you can’t prove that at all and it’s a completely bullshit assumption? Well nevermind, let’s just assume you’re right. 12 million more jobs, to pay for 5 trillion in cuts over 10 years. So, if I’m doing the math right, each of these 12 million workers is going to have to pay an average of $41,666 in taxes per year to make up the deficit caused by the cuts. Wow, those are some rich workers Romney’s tax plan is creating! Especially considering that he’s cutting their rates to begin with, and won’t specify a single deduction he wants to cut to make additional slack.
Or am I missing something in your argument here?