Posted on 04/16/2012 5:47:32 PM PDT by SmithL
PHILADELPHIA -- Mitt Romney's aides soft-pedaled his latest tax pronouncements on Monday, insisting he wasn't tipping his hand when he told donors privately that he might seek to end the tax break for mortgages on second homes and curb other deductions for the wealthy as part of tax reform.
"He was just discussing ideas that came up on the campaign trail," said former Sen. Jim Talent of Missouri, a frequent campaign surrogate. The remarks, made at a closed-door fundraiser in Florida and overheard by reporters, did not mark any "change in policy," Talent said on a conference call with reporters.
Whatever his intention, Romney's remarks drew a tepid response from Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., the chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.
"I'm going to listen very carefully" to Romney's ideas, the lawmaker told reporters. "Obviously, as a presidential candidate, he is going to have some ideas on tax reform."
Camp added: "They're not necessarily views the committee has adopted yet. But we're going to be looking at all those items."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
I don’t own two homes but this is just wrong thinking on Romney’s part. He’s the same as every other tax and spend democrat. I cannot come up with a single reason to vote for him.
Here’s three...he’s not a communist, marxist or facist...
Screw Romney and the GOP-E he rode in on!
Nope, just a socialist.
Already planning tax hikes.
“He was just discussing ideas that came up on the campaign trail,”
Ya, Sure he was.
We are screwed regardless of who wins the election in Nov. Romney will not get my vote, neither will Obama. Our only hope, for this country, is to replace all the liberals in congress. Weather they be R’s or D’s. Next pass term limits.
“He was just discussing ideas that came up on the campaign trail,”
Ya, Sure he was.
We are screwed regardless of who wins the election in Nov. Romney will not get my vote, neither will Obama. Our only hope, for this country, is to replace all the liberals in congress whether they be R’s or D’s. Next pass term limits.
“He was just discussing ideas that came up on the campaign trail,”
Ya, Sure he was.
We are screwed regardless of who wins the election in Nov. Romney will not get my vote, neither will Obama. Our only hope, for this country, is to replace all the liberals in congress whether they be R’s or D’s. Next pass term limits.
“He was just discussing ideas that came up on the campaign trail,”
Ya, Sure he was.
We are screwed regardless of who wins the election in Nov. Romney will not get my vote, neither will Obama. Our only hope, for this country, is to replace all the liberals in congress whether they be R’s or D’s. Next pass term limits.
WE ARE GOING THE WAY OF EUROPE WITH A DEBT BOMB BURSTING AT SOME POINT.
ROMNEY REPUBLICANS AND OBAMA DEMOCRATS WILL RAISE OUR TAXES ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
SENATOR PAT TOOMEY’S PLAN TO BALANCE THE BUDGET IN TEN YEARS IS MORE AMBITIOUS THAN PAUL RYAN’S BUT IT IS BUILT ON THE NOTION THAT TAX ‘LOOPHOLES’ NEED TO BE CLOSED.
READ MY LIPS, REPUBLICANS PLAN TO RAISE OUR TAXES.......
Yep.
This was a trial balloon. There will be very little long term blowback. People are sheep
George the Elder must be giving him lip reading lessons.
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