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Romney Tax Plan Specifics Nowhere To Be Found (VIDEO)

WATCH: Romney Dodges Tax Plan Questions At Every Turn

Mitt Romney’s tax plan would lower tax rates for everyone, including middle-class households, while also managing to close the deficit. At least if you ask Mitt Romney.

Others are a little bit more skeptical.

The Tax Policy Center recently concluded that it’s mathematically impossible to keep all of Romney’s promises for tax cuts and still reduce the deficit. Other economic pundits from Paul Krugman to Josh Barro agree. So who’s likely to get slammed? Many suspect the middle class.

Still, it’s hard to tell, given that Romney has been less than forthcoming about the specifics of his plan. At Tuesday night’s debate and in many media appearances, Romney has avoided giving details of his plan.

Watch him skirt the issue every chance he gets.

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People Who Say Romney's Tax Plan Doesn't Work
Paul Krugman(01 of09)
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote in a New York Times blog post in August: "Romney’s tax plan is now a demonstrated fraud — big tax cuts for the rich that he claims would be offset by closing loopholes, but the Tax Policy Center has demonstrated that the arithmetic can’t possibly work." (credit:Getty Images)
Matt Taibbi(02 of09)
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Matt Taibbi, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, wrote in a recent blog post : "If you're going to offer an across-the-board 20 percent tax cut without explaining how it's getting paid for, hell, why stop there? Why not just offer everyone over 18 a 1965 Mustang? Why not promise every child a Zagnut and an Xbox, or compatible mates for every lonely single person?" (credit:Getty Images)
Larry Summers(03 of09)
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Harvard economist Larry Summers, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama, recently compared Mitt Romney's tax plan to a hamburger and ice cream diet. He said: "It’s easy to say that 'My plan is to eat ice cream sundaes and chocolate cake and hamburgers as much as I want, my plan is to lose 60 pounds, and my plan is to avoid painful exercise, and those are all my objectives and I'm committed to every one of them.'" (credit:Getty Images)
The Tax Policy Center(04 of09)
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The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank, recently concluded that Mitt Romney's tax plan is mathematically impossible without raising taxes on the middle class. (credit:WikiMedia:)
Josh Barro(05 of09)
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Bloomberg View columnist Josh Barro wrote in a recent column that the six studies that the Romney campaign uses to claim the candidate's tax plan is mathematically possible "individually and collectively...fail the task." (credit:Bloomberg TV)
Mark Zandi(06 of09)
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Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, recently said on CNN that when it comes to Romney's tax plan, "the arithmetic doesn't work as it is right now." (credit:Bloomberg TV)
Ezra Klein(07 of09)
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Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein wrote in August that "the Tax Policy Center’s analysis has removed all doubt" that Romney's tax plan is mathematically impossible. (credit:MSNBC)
David Frum(08 of09)
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David Frum, contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, recently wrote: "Romney's tax cut plan doesn't work. I'm a Republican, I support Romney, etc. But you can't cut that much in such a stagnant economy and expect to break even. Even with a deductions cap, it just won't happen." (credit:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Flickr" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb2d785e4b0480ca65d2203" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2" data-vars-position-in-unit="8">Flickr</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26211546@N03/8080643825" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Howard County Library System" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb2d785e4b0480ca65d2203" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26211546@N03/8080643825" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="3" data-vars-position-in-unit="9">Howard County Library System</a>)
Catherine Rampell(09 of09)
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Catherine Rampell, economics reporter at The New York Times, wrote of the the Romney campaign's tax promises in a recent blog post: "Not all of those principles can coexist so long as basic arithmetic survives." (credit:PBS Newshour)
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