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fleur-de-lisa

(14,616 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 12:56 PM Sep 2012

Romney, Ryan sound bipartisan tone on taxes, health care

Source: Fox News

How Faux News is spinning the mixed messages coming from MittWit and Eddie Munster:

"Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are moving to define what they plan to do and what they stand for on the hot-button issues of health care and taxes, after enduring a week in which Democratic convention-goers tried to define that for them. Both candidates signaled room for compromise on those issues in interviews over the weekend. The remarks follow a convention in Charlotte, N.C., where speaker after speaker accused Republicans of favoring the wealthy in the tax code and imperiling Americans' access to care. On health care, Romney said Sunday he wants to keep parts of the health care overhaul spearheaded by President Obama. Though Romney vows to repeal the law, he said: "I'm not getting rid of all of health care reform." Romney said: "There are a number of things that I like" in the law. The Republican presidential nominee said he wants to make sure people with pre-existing conditions can still have guaranteed coverage. And he said he wants to make sure young people can stay on their parents' plan "up to whatever age they might like" -- currently, that age is 26.

The comments may be part of the natural and traditional outreach to the political middle that candidates embark on after sealing their party's presidential nomination. With the 2012 presidential race consistently so close as to be within the margin of error, independents and undecided voters are key to victory in the November election. The pre-existing condition and young adult provisions Romney mentioned in his interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" are among the most popular in the health care overhaul, though the law itself is divisive.

Romney and Ryan also challenged the narrative that they want to cut benefits to seniors in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthy. Romney said Sunday he does not intend to cut taxes for the well-off. "I can tell that you people at the high end, high income taxpayers, are going to have fewer deductions and exemptions. Those numbers are going to come down," Romney said. "Otherwise, they'd get a tax break. And I want to make sure people understand, despite what the Democrats said at their convention, I am not reducing taxes on high-income taxpayers." Romney stressed that while he's proposing a reduction in the tax rate, he wants to close deductions and exemptions "at the high end so the revenues stay the same." Romney said he also wants "to lower the burden on middle income people."

However, Romney did not detail specifically which deductions or loopholes he'd shave back -- a lack of specifics that has opened the door to charges that his plan would, in fact, benefit high-income earners and end up taxing the middle class more."

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Romney, Ryan sound bipartisan tone on taxes, health care (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Sep 2012 OP
Right atreides1 Sep 2012 #1
Trust The Mitt Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #2
I'm Thinking We Know Less About Mitt Than Any Other Candidate That Ever Ran For President...... global1 Sep 2012 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Sep 2012 #3
it is innane BS Cosmocat Sep 2012 #4
are 2 democrats facing each other? daybranch Sep 2012 #5
BOO! Fox News Headlines should NOT appear here DavidL Sep 2012 #7

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. Trust The Mitt
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 01:12 PM
Sep 2012

I have a plan ----- Trust The Mitt
No tax returns ---- Trust The Mitt
No Olympic records --- Trust The Mitt
No Governor records ---- Trust The Mitt
I care ------- Trust The Mitt
Bain ------- Trust The Mitt


Hard to trust someone that has no record ..........

global1

(25,170 posts)
6. I'm Thinking We Know Less About Mitt Than Any Other Candidate That Ever Ran For President......
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 02:07 PM
Sep 2012

Given your post and comments we do not know much about his intentions should he win. The fact that he's flip-flopped on every major issue ever presented to him - we don't know really where he stands on any of the issues.

How could we even consider this guy for the highest office given this lack of knowledge of the man and his stances?

To me this is too dangerous a path to take.

I just hope the American People wake up before it is too late.

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Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
4. it is innane BS
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 01:38 PM
Sep 2012

so ...

They are going to keep those aspects of the AHCA that people like while "repealing" that which no one really understands about it.

And, sure, they will cut the upper tax rate, but at the same time eliminate loop holes so that it will only be a wash for them. Anyone with even the first level of common sense will see through that, but assuming they don't, the sum of this is that:

You think people should elect you over the other guy so you can keep the popular aspects of a law he got passed and to tinker with the tax code.

THAT is your big sell?

daybranch

(1,309 posts)
5. are 2 democrats facing each other?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 01:54 PM
Sep 2012

Goods lord, you would think Mitt Romney was a democrat. Now he is raising taxes on the rich by closing loopholes in the tax code. Now he is keeping the best parts of Obama Care. Now although he does not support abortion he would not try to stop as woman from choosing.
Next he will accept global warmoing and promise to stop pollution and limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
I know we called him Mr.Etch a sketch but he is exceeding expectations.
I guess if he is going to do same things as Obama we might as well stick with Obama, the original.

 

DavidL

(384 posts)
7. BOO! Fox News Headlines should NOT appear here
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:06 PM
Sep 2012

This is Republican double-speak!


It should be labeled as such when posted.

Bi-Partisan my ASS! Republican propaganda, pure and simple.

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