“Concerned Citizen” Mitt Romney took out ads in Iowa and New Hampshire in 1996 attacking Steve Forbes’s flat tax plan, which Rick Perry’s upcoming flat tax proposal may resemble. Ouch!
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I think Mitt is going to be our Jon Corzine.
Romney is not conservative. I would never vote for that joker.
See, Mitt’s not a moron. He knows flat tax is an attack on the poor and middle class and a favor to the wealthy who get most of their income from investments, not wages. It’s just that he will sacrifice his moral values and intellectual reason if it’s going to cost him campaign donations from corporations and the rich.