"... not the one the president describes as a top-down, cut taxes for the rich. That's not what I'm going to do." Mitt Romney (10/3/12)
"Mitt Romney has proposed huge tax cuts that principally benefit the wealthy, while refusing to say how he’d pay for them by closing unspecified loopholes. This lacks credibility and may become one of the rare tax-cut promises that is a political loser.
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On taxes, it’s Romney who’s ducking. He has proposed a tax cut of more than $4 trillion over 10 years, an across-the-board 20 percent reduction in individual income-tax rates, the elimination of the estate tax, the alternative minimum tax and taxes on capital gains, dividends and interest for those earning less than $200,000. The corporate rate tax rate would come down to 25 percent from 35 percent." BLOOMBERG (9/16/12)
"One, get us energy independent, North American energy independent. That creates about 4 million jobs." Mitt Romney (10/3/12)
"Romney's job-creation claim comes from a spring Citigroup report arguing that North America could achieve energy independence, creating between 2.7 million and 3.6 million new jobs in the United States by 2020. But according to the report, independence would require implementing Obama's new fuel-efficiency standards for cars, which Romney opposes." (emphasis added) (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 10/4/12)
"... crack down on China, ...." Mitt Romney (10/3/12)
"Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.
During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission." WASHINGTON POST (6/21/12)
"The 2011 tax returns his campaign released on Friday show that Mr. Romney’s family trusts had invested in shares of a Chinese-owned state oil company but got rid of those investments this summer as Mr. Romney’s anti-Chinese rhetoric heated up on the campaign trail." THE NEW YORK TIMES (10/4/12)
"And over the last four years, small- business people have decided that America may not be the place to open a new business, because new business startups are down to a 30-year low. I know what it takes to get small business growing again, to hire people." Mitt Romney (10/3/12)
Americans don't move to China to start up small businesses. This is nonsense. Also, the financial institutions crashed in 2008 -- caused by your boy George W. Bush -- cratering lending for small businesses. The other part of Romney's first two paragraphs dealt with ensuring workers have skills and students get education -- platitudes with no specifics. Me (10/4/12)
Don't let the media dumb down our politics. That's what Republicans want. The GOP has crept away from fact, science, measurements and any kind of rationally-based decision-making process. They want you to judge a debate on what a person looks like and how loud they can get. The debate between candidates for the Presidency of the United States is something much more important.
Also, let's nip this "Trickle-Down Government" crap in the bud. Romney apparently believes that the government paying people back for years and years of paying into Social Security and Medicare, or serving their country in a foreign un-paid-for war, or getting the tiny death benefit when your dad is blown up in Afghanistan should be given a scare name. Don't let them do it.