It’s funny. I pulled my statements from researching articles written before his candidacy, not after. There was also a peek into the Mass. Constitution and laws on some things he tried to blame on others. I did not look at the attack and defend sites, figuring they both put things in their light.
For example, in October of 2003, he had a meeting with Barney Frank, among others, about the Bush tax cuts. Frank came out of the meeting gushing over Romney’s statements that he would not support them. It was never refuted or denied, simply buried after he decided to run for president.
Car registration fees are taxes by another name. Any fee that cannot be avoided is the same thing as a tax.
Romney kept quiet about the Bush tax cuts because they were a Federal issue, not a state issue. He was a governor, not a Sentaor or Congressman.
Why should he have taken a position on them? What good would it have done? At the time he just started his term and was focused on state issues, as he should have been.
It was never refuted or denied, simply buried after he decided to run for president.
Romney has denied he opposed the tax cuts. Frank claims he did, but since when are conservatives so willing to trust the word of Barney Frank?
Car registration fees are taxes by another name. Any fee that cannot be avoided is the same thing as a tax.
The car registration fee was one of the fees he did not raise. The only types of fees he raised were those that can be avoided; for government services that only a select few benefit from.
Those are very different from taxes, and he was right to raise them.