2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumReport: Mitt Romney Proposed Charging A Fee For Being Mentally Retarded or Blind
This is from January but I missed it then. There's Mitt - loving regressive fees.
Last night Buzzfeed discovered a full copy of John McCain's 2008 playbook for beating Mitt Romney.
It is pretty well-known among political junkies that Mitt Romney imposed a lot of new fees in Massachusetts to balance the budget without raising taxes.
But what is not well known is how crazy and offensive these fees could be.
Here are the two craziest we could find:
Romney Charged A Fee For Being Blind. It now costs to be blind in Massachusetts. The states approximately 35,000 blind and legally blind residents must now pay $10 annually for a certificate of blindness and $15 every four years for a blind identification card. Without the formerly-free documents, blind people cannot take advantage of tax abatements, affordable housing programs, health care services, transportation discounts and other benefits. ... The fees originated in February, in Gov. Mitt Romneys budget proposal for fiscal 2004. (Shaun Sutner, Advocates Fight Fees For The Blind, Telegram & Gazette, 8/5/03)
Romney Also Proposed Imposing A Fee On The Mentally Retarded. The committee will also accept most of the fee recommendations made by Romney, Rogers said, but would not endorse ... a new fee for some mentally retarded citizens... (Jennifer Peter, House Leaders Agree With Romneys Plan To Eliminate Urban Park Agency, The Associated Press, 4/16/03)
No one has brought this out in an attack ad-yet, but they should.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-mitt-romney-proposed-charging-a-fee-for-being-mentally-retarded-2012-1?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics#ixzz1whKE9M5Y
As the Obama Campaign said regarding Romney ~ "He's Never Been in it for YOU".
freshwest
(53,661 posts)'Worthless Mouths,' as another fine group of politicans once said.
There is little difference between a Randian Republican and the Third Reich when you line up the end results.
Oh, and by the way, Fuck Ron Paul.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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sofa king
(10,857 posts)This thread is full of contenders for that coveted award. Thanks for making me laugh. XO
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)The we can eliminate the deficit at the expense of the GOP
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)meow2u3
(24,779 posts)Let's call it the narcissist tax. All megalomaniacs and selfish, Republican fat cats have to pay triple the top tax rate without any loopholes.
sakabatou
(42,207 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)They should charge people fees if they make more than 1 million dollars because that really is not taxes according to the republicans
pansypoo53219
(21,016 posts)you know, TAXES.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)unless someone else has to pay.
madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)yangzhen76
(9 posts)tanyev
(42,692 posts)Not.
ilikeitthatway
(143 posts)with all the dirt they have on Romney. Romney's crap could fill an encyclopedia.