Sunday, October 2, 2011

How Romney Put the Tax in Taxachusetts


Romney ran for Massachusetts Governor on a pro-business platform. As soon as he was elected, he turned on businesses and institutes hundreds of millions in additional taxes.
(NYT)- But just a few months after Mr. Romney took office in 2003, what he delivered seemed anything but friendly to the C.E.O. crowd: a bill to financial firms for what they saw as $110 million in new corporate taxes — and a promise of more to come.

“How could he do this to businesses as a business guy?” Joe Casey, then a top executive at a Massachusetts bank, Seacoast Financial, recalled asking colleagues whose companies had to pay up after the Romney administration closed a tax loophole. “It was very aggressive, and it was a surprise.” 

For the next three years, the Romney administration relentlessly scoured the tax code for more loopholes, extracting hundreds of millions of corporate dollars to help close budget gaps in a state with a struggling economy. It was only after Mr. Romney was gearing up in 2005 for a possible White House bid that he backed away from some of his most assertive tax enforcement proposals amid intensifying complaints from local companies and conservative antitax groups in Washington.

3 comments:

  1. For a while I had my eye on Romney as someone who I thought I could support. After reading this, and other things about him, his policies, how he votes, I just cant get behind him.

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  2. IS said...

    "For a while I had my eye on Romney as someone who I thought I could support."

    If Romney is the candidate I will support him because anybody would be better than Obama. However, I don't think he is a good choice for Conservatives.

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  3. No romney- ever!
    like the RINO illustration!
    Carol-CS

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