Mitt Romney: The true economic conservative
He knows how to work with a democratic congress.
"I went after taxes as well. The Legislature passed a $250 million retroactive capital gains tax increase. I knew my veto would be overridden by the 85% Democrat majority. So I had the Department of Revenue send every taxpayer a pro forma bill for their new higher taxes, and then I waited for folks to call their legislators. And did they ever. Then, I sent the Legislature an amendment that turned the $250 million tax increase into a $250 million refund. Amazingly, the Legislature now saw the error of their ways."
Comments
Posted by: Winghunter
Posted on: February 13, 2008 05:55 PM
I'ld love to know how Willard attempts to justify the $400+ Million he extorted by increasing fee's and inventing new ones so he could say he kept his promise of no new taxes. That's just dishonest as the day is long.
Also trying to place the blame on the people of MA for permanently infringing the Second Amendment was just as pathetic...no, much more so.
Conservatism is not a coat you can put on and take off at the first opportunity of appeasement...he is no conservative by any reasonable measure.
Willard Mitt Romney
http://willardromney.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Chad
Posted on: February 13, 2008 08:31 PM
Increasing the price to put a McDonalds sign on the freeway is actually a conservative thing to do. Prior to him coming into office... the government was subsidizing the prices of those signs. They just made it so that they were not subsidizing them. The other fees were the same type of thing.