Bring It On! Election 2008

Hey here’s a novel twist - a Republican who pledges no new taxes during an election. Amazingly daring position for Mitt Romney to stake out yesterday. In Romney’s own words:

For years, conservative candidates for president signed their name on the dotted line, pledging to oppose tax increases,” Romney says in the ad that’s set to hit airwaves in the crucial primary state Friday. “I’m proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not.

Can one of these guys sign a balanced budget pledge? Or maybe a how to finance a government realistically pledge? I’d like my child not to be even more in arrears to China thank you very much Mr. Romney. And please spare me the part about cutting out big wasteful programs like Social Security (needed), Medicaid (needed) and Medicare (if you don’t think it’s needed, ask yourself who will provide your health care when you retire. It won’t be your employer.) to balance the budget. It isn’t going to happen. It isn’t going to happen any more than we are going to cut military spending.

Of course, Romney had more to say. He thinks your money is your money

“We’ve got to get taxes down. And grow our economy,” Romney adds. “I believe it’s not fair that you have to pay taxes when you earn your money, when you save your money and when you die.”

True, like most Republican’s they only think it’s fair that you pay taxes on the money you work for, not the money you get from your Trust Fund (Paris Hilton I’m looking at you) or your dead Grandpappy. Nope, only the money you actually get off your ass and go to work for should be taxed.

What I believe is not fair is the incredible dishonesty of Republican candidates who refuse to address the budget seriously. Candidates who refuse to count the whole deficit (the war funding, the borrowing against the Social Security Trust, etc) and present that to the American People. Candidates who won’t show how much money they had to borrow to support their pet projects (war, fraud and corporate welfare) and how the economy is still teetering on another recession because of it. That’s what I think is unfair.

I think it’s also the height of unfair that they don’t explain to Americans how the Chinese economy is growing at double digit rates in large part thanks to our overspending. All those “tax cuts” were paid for by our Asian “friends.” How about Mitt just be honest and say that the tax cut you get now (or won’t get since very few of you are rich enough to notice) helps fuel the offshoring of your job later. Hooray!

That’s the pledge Mitt Romney signed folks. No new taxes doesn’t mean anything if you aren’t making enough to pay them. Now that doesn’t seem very fair to me at all.

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