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He did it by closing loopholes, the same thing he has said he would do at the federal level... If you don't like it, that's fine, but it certainly doesn't point to any Romney hypocrisy.
And it is not the same thing as raising taxes. Closing loopholes is taking away the areas where people or companies avoid taxes with sometimes questionable deductions and such. They should have been paying them all along. It had not been addressed and was a big reason the state was in a finanacial mess when Romney became governor. I have not doubt he will take similar measures when he becomes president and it is long overdue.
And it is not the same thing as raising taxes. Closing loopholes is taking away the areas where people or companies avoid taxes with sometimes questionable deductions and such. They should have been paying them all along. It had not been addressed and was a big reason the state was in a finanacial mess when Romney became governor. I have not doubt he will take similar measures when he becomes president and it is long overdue.
Loopholes?
Increasing property tax is "closing a tax loophole"?
Raising corporate tax is "closing a loophole"?
Creating a sales tax from purchasing stuff from the Internet is "closing a loophole"??
Raising the capital gain tax is "closing a loophole"?
Charging businesses more $$ to put up signs is "closing a loophole"??
Com'on. There may be some loopholes that Romney closed but ROMNEY RAISED TAXES and FEES too. That's a fact. Romney, in his effort to increase revenue, looked for any means possible to get more $$ from the taxpayers. If anything, his Romneycare and his ability to take money from taxpayers (and his cutting of spending too, in the context of full disclosure) is his legacy in MA.
Because you pretended to address my point...but then you didnt.Instead of providing quotes that you alleged disagreed with my point,which were in fact not relevant to my comment, you could have just ignored my post or pointed out that my response wasn't relevant.You chose to make it appear that two men don't agree with me when in fact there is no evidence that they don't.
The quotes addressed the portion of your comment that was relevant to the conversation. If you believe they were inadequate, rephrase the comment within the context of the thread's topic. Inference to the President is irrelevant and subsequently ignored. While it may be interesting to perform such comparison, for the scope of this conversation I did not include the President and have no interest in any comparison or opinion relating him to the thread's topic.
He's making the point that Romney is the Republican version of Obama when it comes to campaign promises and going 180° on them after being elected
We know that Obama has gone 180 degrees on his most important campaign promises, like cutting the deficit in half in his first term. Romney has not broken any of his presidential campaign promises and we don't know if he will.
Sigh his economic policies were "saved" when Volcker raised the interest rates
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Ron Paul is a nut.
sigh.. The only person in congress who told us years ahead of time the economy would collapse and the exact reasons why. He's not the nut here.
One of the few in Congress who was informed enough and read the CIA and Dept of Defense reports and rightfully concluded that our 60 years of intervention would make us less safe. He's not the one who is nuts here.
The nuts are the ones who don't learn from their many failures and mindlessly go about their life making the same mistakes over, and over, and over again. Big government types do this all too often. They keep eating garbage and wonder why it tastes bad.
Sigh his economic policies were "saved" when Volcker raised the interest rates
sigh.. The only person in congress who told us years ahead of time the economy would collapse and the exact reasons why. He's not the nut here.
One of the few in Congress who was informed enough and read the CIA and Dept of Defense reports and rightfully concluded that our 60 years of intervention would make us less safe. He's not the one who is nuts here.
The nuts are the ones who don't learn from their many failures and mindlessly go about their life making the same mistakes over, and over, and over again. Big government types do this all too often. They keep eating garbage and wonder why it tastes bad.
Lol, Reagan was responsible for Reagan's success.
Ron Paul is a hypocritical nut, who accepts ear marks.
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agree with me when in fact there is no evidence that they don't.
