Paul Krugman Moves From Delusional To Open Dishonesty

Like the rest of the lunatics, Krugman has been attacking Ryan’s budget plans relentlessly.  Today, in the NY Times, he’s got an op-ed out again.  He starts out fine,

Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate led to a wave of pundit accolades. Now, declared writer after writer, we’re going to have a real debate about the nation’s fiscal future. This was predictable: never mind the Tea Party, Mr. Ryan’s true constituency is the commentariat, which years ago decided that he was the Honest, Serious Conservative, whose proposals deserve respect even if you don’t like him.

Then he falls off the rails beginning with a personal attack….. typical of leftists.

But he isn’t and they don’t. Ryanomics is and always has been a con game, although to be fair, it has become even more of a con since Mr. Ryan joined the ticket.

Apparently Krugman thinks Ryan is dishonest. But, rather than demonstrate any of Ryan’s dishonestly, he jumps and lands firmly with both feet into the serial liar category.  He continues….

Let’s talk about what’s actually in the Ryan plan, and let’s distinguish in particular between actual, specific policy proposals and unsupported assertions. To focus things a bit more, let’s talk — as most budget discussions do — about what’s supposed to happen over the next 10 years.

On the tax side, Mr. Ryan proposes big cuts in tax rates on top income brackets and corporations. He has tried to dodge the normal process in which tax proposals are “scored” by independent auditors, but the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has done the math, and the revenue loss from these cuts comes to $4.3 trillion over the next decade.

Now obviously Krugman can’t link to the source, because he knows if someone were to go there they’d find the lie.  But in even referencing the source, we see he’s lying.  The Tax Policy Center is run by the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institute.  Both are left leaning institutes. But, toward the source itself, it could be this one.  But, I don’t think so because his numbers don’t quite match.

On the tax side, Mr. Ryan proposes big cuts in tax rates on top income brackets and corporations. He has tried to dodge the normal process in which tax proposals are “scored” by independent auditors, but the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has done the math, and the revenue loss from these cuts comes to $4.3 trillion over the next decade.

Now, I took the liberty of highlighting the very bold text at the bottom of the chart.  Maybe Krugman isn’t being dishonest, maybe he’s too stupid to understand the verbiage.  Or, maybe a leftist group, under the guise of nonpartisanshipprovided some severely flawed information for other leftists to propagate.

It isn’t 5 paragraphs later does he even hint at the possibility that these numbers aren’t correct.

Well, he says that he would offset his tax cuts by “base broadening,” eliminating enough tax deductions to make up the lost revenue. Which deductions would he eliminate? He refuses to say — and realistically, revenue gain on the scale he claims would be virtually impossible.

Ryan, by the way, doesn’t refuse to say, but rather he left that part of the budget to the tax writing committee of the House.  Krugman is throwing out numbers he knows are incorrect.  But, he’s blathering them anyway at the same time calling Ryan dishonest and unserious.

Seriously, Krugman?  But, earlier, I said I didn’t believe this is the exact place where he’s getting his facts  propaganda.  Here’s likely what’s happening…….  From FactCheck.org

Outdated Attacks on Ryan

The Obama campaign points to old proposals by Rep. Paul Ryan in saying that Mitt Romney would pay “less than 1 percent in taxes” under Ryan’s plan and that seniors would pay $6,000 more for Medicare. Ryan’s 2010 budget proposal would have eliminated capital gains and dividend taxes — which were indeed the bulk of Romney’s tax burden for 2010 — but Ryan dropped that specific measure from subsequent budgets. The Medicare claim, too, pertains to a less generous plan Ryan released last year, not his most recent budget. …..

Ryan’s 2010 budget plan was proposed when Republicans were in the minority in the House, and it had no chance of passage. His later budget plans were proposed when Republicans were in the majority. Ryan’s 2011 and 2012 plans, which were passed on party-line votes in the House of Representatives, called for broadening the tax base, reducing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, (as specified in the plan released in 2012) creating just two (instead of six) tax brackets of 10 percent and 25 percent, and repealing the alternative minimum tax. But there’s nothing specific on what would happen to capital gains taxes. He does make clear, however, that he opposes raising capital gains taxes, and may favor reducing them.

Again, we see lack of specifics on other details of the tax plan rendering all of Krugman’s blathering an exercise in dishonesty, as well as the Tax Policy Center’s work.  But, Krugman, the Tax Policy Center, and the Obama campaign are leftists.  Dishonesty is something they specialize in. 

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