” am not a Mitt Romney fan, as my history will surely attest.
I have to ask, though: since when is taking a tax break a bad thing?
The idea that a tax break is a bad idea or wrong, presupposes that the government or someone else had more of a right to my money than I did.
I earned my money, just as Romney did his.
This is a ridiculous, silly, super-duper liberal argument.”
Its not the tax breaks that bothers conservatives, its the stuffing the pockets of politicans with millions and millions of dollars to buy the tax breaks that makes them angry. Its the selective favortism that the money buys, its the bailouts, its the cronyism. Businesses have NO Business being in bed with gov. officals, seeking and buying political favors.
If its legal and your competitors do it, you almost have to to survive. I agree with the argument that it (buying influence) should not be allowed, but if is allowed, you do what you have to do to stay competitive.
I find the current arguments by some candidates that so-and-so (almost always Romney, since he's the front runner) is exclusively involved in this stuff, ridiculous and distasteful.
It amounts to class warfare, and it will come back to bite us hard in the run-up to the general when the Democrats put the quotes back in the mouths of the people who said it against whomever gets the nod.
I was listening to the Laura Ingraham Show this afternoon, and she was interviewing Rick Perry. It was a pretty friendly interview, but at one point, she mentioned that he'd been the recipient of millions of dollars in campaign money from the same kind of venture capitalist firms that Romney ran. I didn't actually hear all of his response, but he was having trouble defending himself.
And then I read the interview with Newt Gingrich taking about not being able to afford a vacation home in New Hampshire because he's not rich. First, he's worth about 6 million dollars by most estimates. Second, he has previously had a half-million dollar line of credit at Tiffany. He could or should be able to afford a vacation home in New Hampshire.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2828830/posts
And third, I know many people who have vacation homes in nice places. We have several in our extended family. A hunting cabin, a home in a ski resort town, and a lake house among them. We're not rich people, but we have a family of very hard working people. The attitude that only rich people have vacation homes is silly. My uncle, a veteran, worked hard every day of his life to buy a hunting cabin and would not appreciate being told he is elite. He's the child of farmers and miners.
Is this the sort of message we want to send to people like my uncle?
And honestly, Romney has a giant target on his back of his own making with all the moronic, nasty, stupid, dishonest things he's done over the years. There should be no reason to engage in class warfare when you're talking about a duplicitous weasel like Mitt Romney.
“Its not the tax breaks that bothers conservatives, its the stuffing the pockets of politicans with millions and millions of dollars to buy the tax breaks that makes them angry. Its the selective favortism that the money buys, its the bailouts, its the cronyism. Businesses have NO Business being in bed with gov. officals, seeking and buying political favors.”
And the fact that Mitt believes in our tax code. He just wants a few modifications. That in itself makes him nothing more than part of the problem and we want it all fixed.
Also, Mitt Romney is just wierd.
Right.