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monmouth

(21,078 posts)
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 02:18 PM Jul 2012

Romney's Increases when he became Governor of MA

Interesting info I just picked up..

Among Romney's "fee increases" as Gov:
Marriage licenses went from $4 to $50
Driving permits from $15 to $30
Deed-recording fees from $25 to $100
Mortgage-recording fees from $36 to $158
Certificate of Blindness $10 fee
Romney also billed blind people $15 each for discount-travel ID cards.

In MA, "Romney increased taxes by $309 million, mainly on corporations. These tax hikes, described by Romney apologists as loophole closures, totaled $128 million in 2003, $95.5 in 2004, and $85 million in 2005. That final year, Romney proposed $170 million in higher business taxes, the Boston Globe reports. However, the Bay State's liberal, Democratic legislature balked and only approved an $85 million increase."

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120106/OPINION02/701069993

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Romney's Increases when he became Governor of MA (Original Post) monmouth Jul 2012 OP
So he closed loopholes and raised fees, but he didn't raise taxes? SoutherDem Jul 2012 #1
regressive taxation Liberal_in_LA Jul 2012 #2

SoutherDem

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1. So he closed loopholes and raised fees, but he didn't raise taxes?
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 05:05 PM
Jul 2012

Well I can think of many loopholes which need to be closed in America but I am sure he would only raise fees on the poor.

Taxes have become a dirty word, call it something else and it is ok. So lets have a fee for being rich. Say, $1M.

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