Romney is scamming voters, claiming not only that he can make up the lost revenue by closing unspecified loopholes, but that he can do so in a way that doesn’t shift the tax burden away from the rich onto the middle class. He can’t, as a matter of sheer arithmetic — which is the point of that Tax Policy Center study… The Romney campaign isn’t even trying to make a substantive argument in response — they’re just calling names.
(Source: The New York Times)