The priorities Mitt Romney is hiding in his plans

October 16, 2012

The Washington Post's Fact Checker reports, "Romney's 12-million job promise has garnered a lot of attention... But this is campaign math, which means it is mostly made of gossamer... The candidate's personal accounting for this figure in this campaign ad is based on different figures and long-range timelines stretching as long as a decade... We just find it puzzling that Romney agreed to personally utter these words without asking more questions about the math behind them."

Progressive Point: We can't solve our problems if our leaders won't tell the truth. Mitt Romney is misrepresenting his own plans because he knows the vision and values they represent are unpopular with the American people. Instead of investing in the middle class to build our economy, Romney and Ryan would raise taxes on the middle class to pay more more tax cuts for the already rich.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan don't want us to know their plan would end guaranteed Medicare and cut Social Security. There's a clear choice in this election: a country where hardworking families pay more so the richest few pay less, or an America where we all pay our fair share and get a fair shot.

Get the Facts:

• Mitt Romney's plan, featured in campaign ads, to create 12 million jobs over four years doesn't add up. Independent analysts found the claim is based on projections that don't take Romney's proposals into account and that are projected out over as many as ten years. (Washington Post, October 16, 2012)


• At the first presidential debate Mitt Romney, "spoke for 38 minutes of the 90 minute debate and told at least 27 myths." (ThinkProgress, October 4, 2012)


• Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan's plan would provide extra tax incentives for corporations to outsource jobs and pushes policies that would cripple the clean energy industry, jeopardizing 90,000 jobs across the state. (The True Cost of Romney-Ryan to Virginians, ProgressVA, October 2, 2012)


• Moody's Analytics in August and Macroeconomic Advisors in April predicted 12 million jobs will be created by 2016 no matter who is president. (Washington Post, August 31, 2012)

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