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发帖数: 2865 | 1 支持Mitt Romney的同学们, I dare you to read through the whole article and
argue against it with FACTS and TRUTHS.
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Through all the flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign
of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the
electorate.
How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying
recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers
— the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in
donations. He never provided sufficient tax returns to show voters how he
became rich.
How, other than an assumption that voters are too dim to remember what Mr.
Romney has said across the years and months, to account for his breathtaking
ideological shifts? He was a friend of immigrants, then a scourge of
immigrants, then again a friend. He was a Kissingerian foreign policy
realist, then a McCain-like hawk, then a purveyor of peace. He pioneered
Obamacare, he detested Obamacare, then he found elements in it to cherish.
Assault weapons were bad, then good. Abortion was okay, then bad. Climate
change was an urgent problem; then, not so much. Hurricane cleanup was a job
for the states, until it was once again a job for the feds. | S******4
发帖数: 2865 | 2 The same presumption of gullibility has infused his misleading commercials (
see: Jeep jobs to China) and his refusal to lay out an agenda. Mr. Romney
promised to replace the Affordable Care Act but never said with what. He
promised an alternative to President Obama’s lifeline to young undocumented
immigrants but never deigned to describe it.
And then there has been his chronic, baldly dishonest defense of
mathematically impossible budget proposals. He promised to cut income tax
rates without exploding the deficit or tilting the tax code toward the rich
— but he refused to say how he could bring that off. When challenged, he
cited “studies” that he maintained proved him right. But the studies were
a mix of rhetoric, unrealistic growth projections and more serious economics
that actually proved him wrong.
This last is important — maybe the crux of the next four years. History has
shown that it’s a lot easier to cut taxes than to reduce spending.
Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush promised to do both,
managed to do only the first and (with plenty of help from Congress) greatly
increased the national debt. | S******4
发帖数: 2865 | 3 Now Mr. Romney promises to reduce income tax rates by one-fifth — for the
rich, that means from 35 percent to 28 percent — and to raise defense
spending while balancing the budget. To do so, he would reduce other
spending — unspecified — and take away deductions — unspecified. One of
the studies he cited, by Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, said Mr. Romney
could make the tax math work by depriving every household earning $100,000
or more of all of its charitable deductions, mortgage-interest deductions
and deductions for state and local income taxes.
Does Mr. Romney favor ending those popular tax breaks? He won’t say. But he
did take issue with Mr. Feldstein’s definition of the middle class: Mr.
Romney said he would protect households earning $250,000 or less. In which
case the Feldstein study did not vindicate the Romney arithmetic — it
refuted it. Yet the candidate has continued to cite the study. | S******4
发帖数: 2865 | 4 Within limits, all candidates say and do what they have to say and do to win
. Mr. Obama also has dodged serious interviews and news conferences. He has
offered few specifics for a second-term agenda. He, too, aired commercials
that distorted his opponent’s statements.
But Mr. Obama has a record; voters know his priorities. His budget plan is
inadequate, but it wouldn’t make things worse.
Mr. Romney, by contrast, seems to be betting that voters have no memories,
poor arithmetic skills and a general inability to look behind the curtain.
We hope the results Tuesday prove him wrong. | m******O
发帖数: 596 | 5 You are right - I dare NOT to read that lengthy useless article.
现在是刺刀见红的时候，谁还有那心思读长篇小说啊，给个摘要。
【在 S******4 的大作中提到】
: 支持Mitt Romney的同学们, I dare you to read through the whole article and
: argue against it with FACTS and TRUTHS.
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: Through all the flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign
: of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the
: electorate.
: How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying
: recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers
: — the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in
: donations. He never provided sufficient tax returns to show voters how he
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