Posted on 04/07/2012 11:01:04 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Hot on the heels of his eight-vote Iowa-caucus landslide, Willard Mitt Romney is crisscrossing New Hampshire before Tuesday's key primary. Romney is masquerading as a limited-government, free-market executive from next-door Massachusetts. From the Golden Gate to the Granite State, voters should greet Romney's impersonation with a quarry full of skepticism.
In fact, Romney increased taxes by $309 million, mainly on corporations. These tax hikes, described by Romney apologists as loophole closures, totaled $128 million in 2003, $95.5 in 2004, and $85 million in 2005. That final year, Romney proposed $170 million in higher business taxes, the Boston Globe reports. However, the Bay State's liberal, Democratic legislature balked and only approved an $85 million increase.
Tax rates on many corporations almost doubled because of legislation supported by Romney, Boston Science Corporation chairman Peter Nicholas explained in Jan. 6, 2008's Boston Herald. Also, from 5.3 to 9.8 percent, Romney raised the tax on subchapter S corporations owned by business trusts, an 85 percent hike. Romney went further than any other governor in trying to wring money out of corporations, the Council on State Taxation's Joseph Crosby complained.
Romney also created or increased fees by $432 million. He was not dragooned into this by greedy Democratic lawmakers; Romney himself proposed these items. In 2003 alone, Romney concocted or boosted 88 fees. Romney charged more for marriage licenses (from $6 to $12), gun registrations (from $25 to $75), a used-car sales tax ($10 million), gasoline deliveries ($60 million), real-estate transfers ($175 million), and more. Particularly obnoxious was Romney's $10 fee per Certificate of Blindness. Romney also billed blind people $15 each for discount-travel ID cards.
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Another Lie about Romney exposed.
Yup! I keep saying it. Romney and Obama are two sides of the same coin. The establishment has The New World Order on fast track. Woe to our beloved country.
pro-abortion,
pro-progressive taxation,
pro-homosexual lobby,
pro-activist judges,
pro-government "growing the economy",
pro-government health care mandate/fee/tax
and pro-gun control......
What's not to love about this guy? The dems and libs voted with the conservatives splitting their vote.... so we end up with 2 liberals running against each other. Vote for Obama and conservative congress and senate. That's the only way to "win". If you vote for Mitt, you're voting for someone that will shank you in the back and allow the "cover of bi-partisan" passage of legislation.
“Yup! I keep saying it. Romney and Obama are two sides of the same coin. The establishment has The New World Order on fast track. Woe to our beloved country.”
Woe to -them-. Psalm 2 is my second favorite.
It is not a threat, it is a promise.
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DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS MAN!:
“If you vote for Mitt, you’re voting for someone that will shank you in the back and allow the “cover of bi-partisan” passage of legislation.”
GET IN THE BOXCARS PEACEFULLY AND IN GOOD ORDER. FOOD, CLEAN CLOTHES AND JOBS ARE ON THE OTHER END OF THE RIDE! HARD WORK WILL MAKE YOU FREE, JUST TRUST IN THE WISDOM OF AUTHORITY AND THE VIRTUE OF THE NEW LEADER.
Signed - every GOP kapo from now till November.
Here a little less biased take:
Club For Growth
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=905
I was shocked when a License To Carry (concealed weapons) permit went to $100 for a renewal in Massachusetts. I paid it, but I wasn’t amused.
And that’s just one of the many fees raised.
THIRD PARTY votes will dilute the percentage of what our votes can rightly identify a low plurality "winner." Obama could conceivably be re-elected by as little as 34 percent of votes cast. That would HEAVILY WEAKEN Obama's position. It would lay down as fact that he was opposed by the majority of voters.
A Romney win would translate as Republican sanction of embracing the anti-conservative principles of cap-and-trade, nationalized health care, forced accomodation of open homosexuality, and cheap tax-funded abortion on demand. A vote for Romney, whether you want it to be or not, would be a vote FOR the Republican party to surrender wholesale to liberalism. Romney would make liberalism MORE powerful in BOTH PARTIES.
I reject Obama for the same reason I reject Romney. My vote will go -- and COUNT -- to ABOOR. Vote THIRD PARTY. Voting for liberalism is always a losing proposition.
Thank you,You are right. We must always pray in His will, for His plan we cannot fathom, but on His promises we can rely.
Thank you,You are right. We must always pray in His will, for His plan we cannot fathom, but on His promises we can rely.
Romney is not “my boy” at all, in fact he is my last choice among those remaining. I’m just keeping the facts straight. Many people actually believe Reagan NEVER raised taxes.
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