Romney’s tax plan helps millionaires and hurts the middle classRead More
Mitt Romney likes to trumpet his tax plan, saying that it would allow Americans to keep more money in their pockets.
Closer scrutiny of Romney’s actual proposal reveals that it’s very good for the wealthy—and very bad for everyone else.
Romney’s plan for manufacturing revival at odds with Massachusetts recordRead More
In an attempt to woo blue-collar voters, Mitt Romney has been claiming that he would revitalize America's manufacturing sector.
But under Governor Romney, Massachusetts manufacturing suffered greatly.
Romney thinks he can fix housing by doing nothingRead More
Mitt Romney says he cares about American families hit hard by the housing crisis, and his plan to give them relief is to boost the economy overall.
Aside from vague references to getting Americans back to work and improving economic conditions, Mitt Romney offers very little in the way of actual proposals.
Romney supports a plan to end Medicare as we know itRead More
Mitt Romney would has proposed a plan to end Medicare as we know it by taking steps to privatizing it and turning it into a voucher program.
The Romney plan would devastate Medicare and end the program as we know it.
Gingrich threatens to kill estate tax even though it helps reduce deficitRead More
Newt Gingrich has called on Congress to eliminate the estate tax.
In reality, the end of the estate tax would blow a giant hole in the federal budget, forcing cutbacks in other areas like Medicare and infrastructure investment.
Romney claims outsider status while meeting with Washington insidersRead More
In a recent South Carolina GOP debate, Mitt Romney tried to make viewers believe that he’s an outsider with no connections to Washington’s world of special interests.
But while Mitt Romney keeps talking about changing the culture in Washington, the facts about his Beltway connections speak for themselves. Today, he’s in the capital he claims to loathe, holding a high-dollar “policy roundtable” with some of the very lobbyists and industry insiders he’s been railing against.
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