Posted on 10/02/2011 8:19:49 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
How could he do this to businesses as a business guy? Joe Casey, then a top executive at a Massachusetts bank, Seacoast Financial, recalled asking colleagues whose companies had to pay up after the Romney administration closed a tax loophole. It was very aggressive, and it was a surprise.
For the next three years, the Romney administration relentlessly scoured the tax code for more loopholes, extracting hundreds of millions of corporate dollars to help close budget gaps in a state with a struggling economy. It was only after Mr. Romney was gearing up in 2005 for a possible White House bid that he backed away from some of his most assertive tax enforcement proposals amid intensifying complaints from local companies and conservative antitax groups in Washington
An examination of the period reveals a more complicated picture. It shows a governor who sometimes put the need to find new revenues ahead of the conservative argument that tax increases almost by definition kill jobs; a shrewd financial manager who aides said was guided by a strong sense of rectitude, not just pragmatism; and a political aspirant willing to buck the orthodoxies of his own party at least, state lawmakers said, until his national ambitions tempered that impulse and led him to steer a more conservative course.
Today Mr. Romney rarely, if ever, discusses on the campaign trail how he closed the Massachusetts tax loopholes.
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Finally, I would like to see articles like this posted 10 times a day minimum about Romney. The free ride he has gotten so far this election makes me sick.
I agree. We’ve had enough anti-Perry and Cain slams the last few days.
How can he do it? Because he’s an opportunist. Whatever it takes. He’ll take over corporations and fire people if that pays off for him. Or he’ll force gay marriage on all the clerks in Massachusetts if that what it takes to get votes there. Or he’ll raise taxes so he can brag that he has balanced the budget as governor.
Incredible isn’t it? The super liberal SOB Romney is sliding by and portraying himself as a the carrier of conservatism banner when he is one of the most liberal candidates in the modern history of the Republican Party. I guess Conservatives and Republicans should at the end decide if giving in state tuition to the children of illegal immigrant is more important and more dangerous than the super liberal record of Romney on a lot of issues and paramount among them Romneycare.
All I want is for ONE moderator to ask Romney if he has a name in mind for the planet he will be God of someday?
lol
that’s what the republican party has been about since the civil war:
large federal government
and
large taxes.
I thought we were only knocking Rick Perry on this forum!
BUMP
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