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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TopCat who wrote (145509)	10/12/2012 9:10:07 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 224777

On taxes, Biden made it clear that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are not being honest about their plan—that promises to lower rates by 20 percent, reduce taxes on the middle class, and find deductions to offset the whole cost are mathematically implausible. In so doing, he had help from moderator Martha Raddatz, who asked specific, tough questions to both sides—and who on this particular issue pressed Ryan to provide the details that, ultimately, he couldn’t. On Medicare, Biden explained what the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan would mean for retirees—that it would jeopardize the guarantee of benefits that the program has provided since its creation in 1965. Biden also reminded voters about the 2011 Ryan Medicare plan, which would have left the typical senior individually responsible for two-thirds of his or her medical costs. Ryan noted that he and Romney had since endorsed less extreme plans. Biden didn’t dispute that, but he asked, rightly, why voters should trust them when they were endorsing such dramatic and dangerous changes less than a year ago. tnr.com