Princeton Economist Harvey Rosen: Obama Campaign Is Misrepresenting My Study On Romney's Tax Plan

The Obama campaign shot out an e-mail declaring in part that "[P]rinceton economist Harvey Rosen...concede[s] that paying for Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000." The only problem is that's not true. Professor Rosen responded to the e-mail blasting the Obama campaign for misrepresenting his views of Romney's tax plan:

"I can’t tell exactly how the Obama campaign reached that characterization of my work. It might be that they assume that Governor Romney wants to keep the taxes from the Affordable Care Act in place, despite the fact that the Governor has called for its complete repeal. The main conclusion of my study is that under plausible assumptions, a proposal along the lines suggested by Governor Romney can both be revenue neutral and keep the net tax burden on taxpayers with incomes above $200,000 about the same. That is, an increase in the tax burden on lower and middle income individuals is not required in order to make the overall plan revenue neutral.

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