What Each Tax Plan Means For You - New England Patriots Forums

Mrs.PatsFanInVa · 08-25-2012, 09:24 AM

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Interesting little app that you lets you find out how each candidate would affect your pocketbook, based on your age, income, and number of dependents. Politify’s predictions are based off of non-partisan economic models of each candidate’s proposed tax plans. Users can also see the impact on their neighborhood, city, or the whole country.

The inviting user interface is enough to make up for the fact that the economic implications of an election are nearly impossible to predict and the fact that Mitt Romney has infamously refused to reveal details about his tax plan. The app also can’t tell users how likely they are to lose their job, the impact of healthcare costs, depreciation of the dollar, costs of foreign wars, or any of the indirect costs associated with different fiscal policies.

https://www.politify.com/

Mr and I would lose big time under Romney - it'd be illuminating to hear what happens to others here under each.

***Wolfpack*** · 08-25-2012, 10:13 AM

This UC-Berkeley based website looks like nothing more than an ultra-partisan tool designed to cook the books in a way which supports one candidate and opposes the other, but at the same time make it look impartial enough to fool morons into thinking it is some sort of non-partisan attempt to educate. And apparently it is succeeding to the end.

Here's a screen grab of just how impartial this website is:

Patradomous · 08-25-2012, 10:52 AM

Yeah a Robert Reich production. What could go wrong. Further to the left than Paul Krugman with his main distinction that he is one of the few Leftist that couldn't make it Massachusetts.

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n January 2009, the month President Obama entered the Oval Office and shortly before he signed his stimulus spending bill, median household income was $54,983. By June 2012, it had tumbled to $50,964, adjusted for inflation. (See the chart nearby.) That's $4,019 in lost real income, a little less than a month's income every year.

-wsj

On top of the fact that on average people have lost 40% of their net worth? (That figure is accurate) I can barley get what I paid for on my house including a minimum of 50K invested in it.

***DarrylS*** · 08-25-2012, 11:21 AM

1,100 less if the Romney plan were to pass..

Drewski · 08-25-2012, 11:27 AM

$782 more if Mittens were to win.

***Nikolai*** · 08-25-2012, 12:36 PM

A lot more for me either way (+$7k or more with either), so I get to vote my conscience! Yay!

Drewski · 08-25-2012, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikolai

A lot more for me either way (+$7k or more with either), so I get to vote my conscience! Yay!

I was a little confused on how the data was being represented, but now seeing your post it makes sense.

Thanks buddy!

***patsfan13*** · 08-25-2012, 02:26 PM

Well they are projecting the Obama budget to have a lower deficit than Roney so that was as far as I got. Total joke.

***Wolfpack*** · 08-25-2012, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by patsfan13

Well they are projecting the Obama budget to have a lower deficit than Roney so that was as far as I got. Total joke.

I can't get past the idiocy that under Romney and for whatever number I put in for income, you end up with significantly less money if you are married versus if you are single.

There is no tax policy in existence - or being proposed by Romney - that has a married-filing-jointly couple paying more in taxes than a single person making the same amount.

PatsFanInVa · 08-26-2012, 12:52 AM

As it turns out, according to this we'd do okay under both Romney and Obama -- pretty much another fielder's choice case.