Mitt Romney: Champion of Big Government

The Center for Small Government ^ | Carla Howell

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Carla Howell is President of the Center For Small Government and heads the 2008 Massachusetts ballot initiative to END the Income Tax.

Is Mitt Romney the "economic conservative" he claims to be? Especially when it comes to tax and spend policies?

Now that he's running for president, let's compare his words with his deeds.

Taxes

Romney claims to be anti-tax. He even "took" a "no new taxes" pledge when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. "Took" is in quotes because he refused to sign that pledge. His signature wasn't necessary, he claimed. He assured us that he's a man of his word.

But Mitt Romney has been a champion of new taxes. Government Spending

Mitt Romney claims to have cut the Massachusetts budget by "$2 billion." Sometimes he claims he cut it "$3 billion." The media gives him free advertising by parroting this myth repeatedly. They repeat it so often that even some libertarians assume it must be true.

But these "cuts" were merely budget games. Spending cuts in one area were simply moved into another area of the budget.

The Romney-Kennedy Alliance

But his grande finale was the worst of all: RomneyCare, Mitt Romney's version of socialized medicine.

By his own admission, he didn't plan his socialized medicine scheme until after the 2002 election.

During Romney's governor campaign, he convinced voters that his Democrat rival would be worse – because she would saddle us with socialist tax and spend policies, he said.

But soon after he was elected, Romney started the drumbeat for socialized medicine. Three years later, he signed RomneyCare into law.

Much more there to read!!! Government Spending The Romney-Kennedy Alliance Romney's Words Versus Romney's Deeds

[Grunthor]

“Mitt Romney: Champion of Big Government”

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[Finny]

NAH, I appreciate your post.

For the blood of patriots was spilled for it.

The blood of patriots has been spilled to preserve freedom. We betray them when we vote to abandon freedom.

[Names Ash Housewares]

“The blood of patriots has been spilled to preserve freedom. We betray them when we vote to abandon freedom.”

Well, democrats have to live with that guilt if you ask me.
I may not be thrilled with rinos, but I dream of the day when the democratic party is in shambles and destined for the political extinction it so greatly deserves.

And them losing elections is the only way I know.

I still see a wide gap between them and us. Even with our rino problem.

A strong conservative movement I still think can embolden some politicians to be braver in office and stand for what is right.