ROMNEY PROPOSED $5 TRILLION IN NEW TAX CUTS, ON TOP OF MAKING PERMANENT THE BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY, WHICH WOULD SHOWER MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES WITH EVEN MORE BENEFITS
Romney’s Tax Plan Includes An Extension Of The Bush Tax Cuts.“Governor Romney would permanently extend all the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts now scheduled to expire in 2013.” [Tax Policy Center, The Romney Plan (updated), 3/1/12]
Under An Extension Of The Bush Tax Cuts, At Least 27.5% Of The Benefits Would Go To The Top 1%. [Tax Policy Center, Extend 2001-03 Tax Cuts and AMT Patch; Baseline: Current Law; Distribution by Cash Income Percentile, 9/14/10]
Center On Budget And Policy Priorities: Romney’s New Tax Cuts Would Cost $4.9 Trillion Over A Decade, On Top Of The Cost Of Extending The Bush Tax Cuts.“The Tax Policy Center estimates that the Romney tax plan would lose about $480 billion in tax revenue in calendar year 2015, beyond the revenues losses inherent in maintaining current policy (such as continuing all of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts). Over the 2014-2022 period, that implies a total reduction in revenues of about $4.9 trillion, relative to current tax policy.” [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 5/21/12]
ROMNEY WOULD REPEAL WALL STREET REFORM AND ALLOW WALL STREET TO WRITE ITS OWN RULES AGAIN
Romney Pledge To Repeal Dodd-Frank But Has Been Silent On How He Would Prevent Wall Street From Engaging In The Risky Practices That Helped Cause The 2008 Financial Crisis.“Republican Mitt Romney is pledging, if he is elected president, to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, a position favored by donors on Wall Street who have sent millions the candidate’s way. But he is nearly silent on how – without the regulation – he would prevent Wall Street from once again engaging in the risky practices that helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.” [Boston Globe,5/2/12]
PRESIDENT OBAMA GAVE A SPEECH LAST THURSDAY ABOUT BREAKING THE STALEMATE BETWEEN TWO ECONOMIC VISIONS
President Obama Said This Election Is A Chance To Break The Stalemate Between “Two Paths For Our Country” And That “Nothing Is More Important Than An Honest Debate About Where These Two Paths Would Lead Us.” “The problems we’re facing right now have been more than a decade in the making. And what is holding us back is not a lack of big ideas. It isn’t a matter of finding the right technical solution. Both parties have laid out their policies on the table for all to see. What’s holding us back is a stalemate in Washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take. And this election is your chance to break that stalemate. At stake is not simply a choice between two candidates or two political parties, but between two paths for our country. And while there are many things to discuss in this campaign, nothing is more important than an honest debate about where these two paths would lead us.” [Remarks By President Obama, 6/14/12]
President Obama Said “That’s My Vision For America: Education. Energy. Innovation. Infrastructure. And A Tax Code Focused On American Job Creation And Balanced Deficit Reduction.” “The race I want us to win — the race I know we can win — is a race to the top. I see an America with the best-educated, best-trained workers in the world; an America with a commitment to research and development that is second to none, especially when it comes to new sources of energy and high-tech manufacturing. I see a country that offers businesses the fastest, most reliable transportation and communication systems of anywhere on Earth. I see a future where we pay down our deficit in a way that is balanced — not by placing the entire burden on the middle class and the poor, but by cutting out programs we can’t afford, and asking the wealthiest Americans to contribute their fair share. That’s my vision for America: Education. Energy. Innovation. Infrastructure. And a tax code focused on American job creation and balanced deficit reduction.” [Remarks By President Obama,6/14/12]
PRESIDENT OBAMA BELIEVES IN BUILDING THE ECONOMY FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS OUT BY INVESTING IN EDUCATION, ENERGY AND MANUFACTURING, SO WE CAN RESTORE ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS
The President’s FY2013 Budget Calls For Investment In Infrastructure, Education, And Manufacturing Research While Keeping Discretionary Spending Flat. “President Obama will call for new spending on infrastructure, education and manufacturing research, as well as higher taxes on top earners…Officials said the budget would abide by spending caps set by Congress in the August budget deal, keeping discretionary spending levels essentially flat in fiscal 2013. Over the decade, discretionary spending would drop from 8.7% of gross domestic product to 5%, officials said.” [Los Angeles Times, 2/10/12]
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS CALLING ON CONGRESS TO SUPPORT AMERICAN JOBS BY PASSING TAX CREDITS TO ENCOURAGE CLEAN ENERGY MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION
President Obama Is Calling On Congress To Extend The Production Tax Credit That Spurs Clean Energy Production By Providing A Tax Credit For The Production Of Clean Energy Like Wind.From a White House fact sheet: “The Production Tax Credit, which expires at the end of 2012, provides a 2.2 cent per kilowatt hour credit for utility scale wind producers. Congress should act to extend the credit. By extending the PTC benefits for American clean energy producers we can avoid layoffs across the country: The wind industry projects that nearly 30,000 jobs will be lost next year if the PTC expires, including direct jobs as well as those in its supply chain.” [White House Fact Sheet, 5/22/12]
President Obama Has Called On Congress Provide Additional Tax Credits For Advanced Energy Manufacturing.From a White House fact sheet: “The Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit provides a 30 percent investment credit to manufacturers who invest in capital equipment to make components for clean energy projects in the U.S., working in tandem with the Production Tax Credit to create jobs and help reduce our dependence on foreign oil and secure a clean energy future for the United States.” [White House Fact Sheet, 5/22/12]
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, AMERICAN VOTERS!
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The 7 Major Issues Mitt Romney Won’t Take A Position On
By Josh Israel
In March, Mitt Romney demanded “President Obama needs to level with the American public about his real agenda.” But on numerous topics, Romney has refused to answer basic questions about his views, leaving voters to guess at where he stands on important issues. Romney’s ambiguity appears to be a calculated strategy to avoid alienating the conservative base or moderate swing voters. If he’s successful in avoiding articulating policy positions, he can market himself as the “generic Republican” alternative to President Obama.
Here are seven major issues on which Romney has refused to take a stand:
1. Romney won’t say whether he would undo Obama’s decision to end deportations of DREAM-eligible immigrants. Romney and his campaign passed up numerous opportunities over the weekend to say whether he agreed with the substance of the Obama administration’s order to stop deporting some young undocumented immigrants and whether a President Romney would rescind the order, saying only, “We’ll look at that — we’ll look at that setting as we– as we reach that.”
2. Romney won’t say whether he’d support the Paycheck Fairness Act. Romney repeatedly dodged questions about whether he’d support the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill to crack down on wage discrimination and close the wage gap between men and women. His campaign didn’t respond to five requests by the conservative Washington Times seeking his stance on the bill.
3. Romney won’t specify which tax loopholes he’d close. Asked yesterday which tax deductions he would eliminate to offset his massive proposed tax-cuts for the rich, Romney refused to offer any specifics on a plan that he has admitted is so vague it cannot even be scored, saying only, “We’ll go through that process with Congress.”
4. Romney won’t say which federal agencies he’d eliminate.
5. Romney won’t say whether he supports the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
6. Romney won’t say whether he’d support full reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
7. Romney won’t say whether say whether he’d eliminate the “carried interest” tax break for private equity partners.
Whether or not Romney can continue to campaign while avoiding taking a position on so many important issues depends on the how the media reacts. There are dozens of reporters following Romney every day. They can choose to either give him a pass on these important policy issues or continue asking him until he provides an answer.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/06/18/501218/the-7-major-issues-mitt-romney-wont-take-a-position-on/
I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE DEBATES!
Mitt says it makes no sense You decide. President Obama or Mitt Romney on IMMIGRATION
Romney: I Must Not Football With Immigration
By Jonathan Chait
Observing Mitt Romney’s painful attempts to reorient his position on immigration makes it pretty obvious that the politics of the issue have turned on the Republicans. Romney has refused to say if he would overturn President Obama’s unilateral imposition of the DREAM Act. Last night he seemed to suggest he would not:
“What I can tell you is that those people who come here by virtue of their parents bringing them here, who came in illegally, that’s something I don’t want to football with as a political matter,” Romney told Fox.
Of course, Romney was perfectly happy to football with the issue before. During the Republican primary, the Romneybot remorselessly executed Sequence XR-42886, Destroy Illegal Aliens:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/romney-i-must-not-football-with-immigration.html
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News of Mitt Romney’s evasiveness and lack of political courage is spreading. Over the last few days, Mitt Romney has refused to tell the American people where he stands on critical issues ranging from the DREAM Act to job creation, taxes and deficit reduction. It’s clear that Romney either fundamentally misunderstands these policy issues or lacks the political courage to tell the American people what he’d do if elected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irx1VXTLyIU&feature=youtu.be
TRANSCRIPT
KING: Mitt Romney is a study in caution and it often serves him well. But at times, it can leave you scratching your head and wondering why a man who wants to be President can’t tell us a little bit more about what he would actually do. Like over the weekend when the issue was President Obama’s decision not to deport younger illegal immigrants and, not only that, to make them eligible for work permits.
ROMNEY in FACE THE NATION INTERVIEW: There needs to be a long-term solution so they know what their status is.
KING: Five times, five times, Bob Schieffer of CBS tried for a direct answer.
SCHIEFFER in FACE THE NATION INTERVIEW : Would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it?
ROMNEY in FACE THE NATION INTERVIEW: We’ll look at that setting as we reach that, but my anticipation is I’d come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis.
KING: That’s not exactly a direct answer and it’s not the first time. In an ABC interview this past April he employed the same tactic when he was asked by Diane Sawyer if he would have signed the Lilly Ledbetter law. His answer? Quote it’s certainly a piece of legislation I have no intention of changing. I wasn’t there three years ago. Not exactly direct or not exactly bold leadership and I could give you a few more similar examples. “Risk-averse Romney” is the label awarded to the candidate by the conservativeWeekly Standard. And it fits and truth is while people in my business prefer more direct answers and while more information and insight might help you make your mind, caution is in Governor Romney’s DNA.
BRAZILE: I think Governor Romney likes to avoid tough questions. He doesn’t want to give us a plan how he will cut the deficit, how he would create jobs, how he will deal with Iran, how he will deal with Europe. This is part of a long pattern.
KING: And he’s been more specific on some of those things. It’s when he gets asked specific policy questions.
BRAZILE: Unless he can criticize his opponent and be negative, there’s really not a lot of “there” there. I watch him. I watch him all the time to see if he’s saying anything new or if he’s outlining a vision for the future and you’re not going to get it from Mitt Romney. As long as he can stay close in the race, without laying out his plans—and the media is not demanding that he lays out these plans—he’s going to continue to vacillate and not tell us what he will do.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS, MITT ROMNEY
June 18, 2012
Romney Embraces Congressional GOP
Mitt Romney’s five-day tour of swing states, which rolled into Pennsylvania and Ohio over the weekend, is intended to portray him as attuned to the needs of small-town Americans. But the visits also put Mr. Romney in step with a politically riskier group: Republicans who lead Congress.
Mr. Romney has largely kept his distance from Congress, which polls show to be a highly unpopular institution. But on Sunday, he campaigned with House Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Rob Portman, both of Ohio, and on Monday he is to appear with Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the House budget chairman known …
http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303379204577472494183507620.html?mod=WSJ_Election_LEFTSecondStories&mg=reno64-wsj
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Greetings from New Hampshire- blog- check it out
http://www.democrats.org/news/blog/greetings_from_new_hampshire1
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Ohio greets Mitt Romney
http://www.democrats.org/news/blog/ohio_greets_mitt_romney
Because this is what the media is these days. SOUNDBITES, instead of full videos of these interviews.