Well, maybe not "eviscerate." And maybe Jeff Lieber isn't exactly the designated target. Let's just say this WaPo editorial is certain to make Mitt Romney stamp his foot and call a meeting.
It starts off with a catchy intro:
FOR SEVERAL weeks, we’ve been asking Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to explain how he can cut taxes, as promised, without adding to the nation’s debt, as also promised. Now he’s effectively let the cat out of the bag: He can’t.
After a little supporting motif, it gets into a nice hook:
Not so, Mr. Romney protested recently, and cited an analysis by Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, a Romney campaign adviser. Mr. Feldstein said the math could work — if you took away every deduction from every household earning $100,000 or more. (Even then, he couldn’t pay for the estate tax abolition that Mr. Romney also favors, but never mind.) Is that what Mr. Romney has in mind, we asked? If not, what is his plan?
And a pretty seductive ending:
In other words, we are back to counting on magic — to “dynamic scoring,” the voodoo economics of the Reagan era, the wishful thinking of President George W. Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that helped turn a surplus into the deficit now weighing the nation’s economy. Cut taxes and hope the economy grows faster than predicted.
Of course it's just an editorial from
the editorial board of the notoriously left-wing commie WaPo. But I'm dancin'.