Well, frankly, I’m not particularly sure. Of course we have RomneyCare and ObamaCare. And we have this, said in Chandler, Arizona by Mitt Romney concerning taxes:
“I am going to lower rates across the board for all Americans by 20%. And in order to limit any impact on the deficit, because I do not want to add to the deficit, and also in order to make sure we continue to have progressivity as we’ve had in the past in our code, I’m going to limit the deductions and exemptions particularly for high income folks. And by the way, I want to make sure you understand that, for middle income families, the deductibility of home mortgage interest and charitable contributions will continue. But for high income folks, we are going to cut back on that, so we make sure the top 1% keeps paying the current share they’re paying or more.”
Really? Because that’s right out of the Occupy Wall Street playbook. His campaign staff released a press release which stated, “”The principle of fairness must be preserved in federal tax and spending policy,”
Of course they don’t believe that at all or they wouldn’t be talking about “the top 1%” paying more. It has nothing to do with “fairness” as most people would define it.
This is what I talk about when I say that Republicans are as much a problem, if not more of a problem, than Democrats. Republicans like Romney compromise their principles for votes. This is a class warfare buy-in by him, even using the OWS/Democratic rhetoric.
If you wonder why Conservative Republican voters are less than enthusiastic about this field, Romney demonstrates it yet again.
Plastic, fantastic Mitt co-opt’s the left’s class warfare rhetoric and caves on taxes.
Nice.
~McQ
Twitter: @McQandO
- Excited
- Angry
- Not as Angry
- Bored
- Indifferent
- Sad
But remember, if you don’t vote for Mitt, it’s a vote for Obama!
Eh; he’s a politician. He’s trying to use a form of jujitsu wherein he disarms the opposition from deploying some of the class-warfare rhetoric they will use against him.
I’ll tell you how he’s different:
1) he won’t strangle businesses with regulations;
2) he’ll allow the U.S. to develop its natural resources.
That’s what we need right now–a return to capitalism, and jobs. We’ve got to stop the bleeding.
Is that wishcasting?
It’s gearing up to do something unpleasant and painful-casting.