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1   FortWayne   2011 Sep 7, 12:19am  

http://www.mittromney.com/sites/default/files/BelieveInAmerica%E2%80%93MittRomney%E2%80%93PlanForJobsAndEconomicGrowth.pdf

The plan itself is a good read.

I don't agree with him on eliminating the death tax though. And of course this is a bit vague, but better than nothing.

2   American in Japan   2011 Sep 7, 12:23am  

Thanks for the link. . .

3   FortWayne   2011 Sep 7, 12:27am  

likewise

4   Â¥   2011 Sep 7, 2:29am  

Wall Street Journal editorial page has criticized the plan

LOL

Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School and frequent Daily Ticker guest, and economist N. Gregory Mankiw

Just shoot me now. This country is so fucked. The system is not going to be able to reform itself. The bullshit is too deep, and too many people are snowed by it.

5   Â¥   2011 Sep 7, 2:32am  

FortWayne says

I don't agree with him on eliminating the death tax though

LOL, I do. Though it's not a "death tax", it's an estate tax. Calling the etate tax a "Death tax" is part of the bullshit.

6   HousingWatcher   2011 Sep 7, 2:35am  

Romney's plan is nothing more than a repeat of the same failed policies we have had all along. All told, they would add about $6 trillion to the deficit according to the Center for American Progress.

7   Â¥   2011 Sep 7, 3:18am  

Hubbard's foreward: "To bring the unemployment rate back to its prefinancial-crisis level by the end of the next president’s first term"

ah, nothing like a Party economist. Clowns, all of them.

8   Vicente   2011 Sep 7, 3:41am  

Romney's experience with "job creation"?

Running an investment company and encouraging layoffs off to maximize profits.

I will never understand how people rationalize that.

If finance people squick the middle class hard enough, the unicorn will appear and it farts jobs along with the rainbow. Or something.

10   American in Japan   2012 May 14, 2:05pm  

>Romney's plan is nothing more than a repeat of the same failed policies we have had all along. All told, they would add about $6 trillion to the deficit according to the Center for American Progress.

Wow!

11   nope   2012 May 15, 5:46pm  

Romney's plan: Exactly the same plan that every Republican has been pushing for the last 30 years.

Cut taxes, pretend to cut spending, deregulate industries with a proven track record of fucking things up when they aren't regulated.

He's pushing the myth that the U.S. is capable of 5%+ annual GDP growth.

12   nope   2012 May 15, 5:47pm  

Oh, and I *love* the outright lie on Romney's site:

"However, the reality is that before President Obama exploded the size of the federal government, our existing tax rates were more or less adequate to pay for the government we needed."

No deficits before Obama. You heard it from Romney.

13   American in Japan   2012 May 18, 6:35pm  

A while back Forbes had this to say:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2011/11/06/about-mitt-romney-the-republicans-cant-be-serious/

Romney seems to want an "aggressive reduction in the income/capital gains tax burden."

14   American in Japan   2012 Aug 10, 6:51pm  

to eliminate the tax for Corporations bringing their money back from overseas?

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