A really striking feature of the Romney campaign is the candidate’s penchant for stating policy positions as though each one exists in a vacuum. To wit: His 20% across-the-board tax-rate…
Yup. All those farmers in Iowa and Nebraska who’ve been waiting for the Farm Bill to pass are as nervous tonight as Richard Nixo … er … Mitt Romney was…
JERUSALEM — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney angered Palestinian leaders on Monday when he suggested here that the Israeli economy had outpaced the economy of the Palestinian territories in part…
…provide the funding, but, stupidly, no one from the Obama administration thought to contact them. Anyway, I can’t wait to hear the statistics on how many jobs Tagg Romney created!…
…benefits. Ezra Klein , “Romney’s right: Obamacare cuts Medicare by $716 billion. Here’s how.” Note: HMO is health maintenance organization; PPO is preferred provider organization. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/14/romneys-right-obamacare-cuts-medicare-by-716-billion-heres-how/ The very same CBO…
…string of Bain purchases under Romney — thriving companies that were saddled with debt so Romney could extract cash in the form of “profits,” leaving the companies to devolve into…
MITT ROMNEY: “Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can…
by Linda Beale Romney’s “Binders full of women” comment editor’s note: this is a political commentary and not a tax discussion. When Romney was asked what he could do about…
…toll on our economy. What plans do you have to put back and keep jobs here in the United States? Romney:…which will allow me as president to be able to…
by Linda Beale Whistleblower gets millions: good for compliance improvement (and makes us ask again–did Romney get amnesty?) Bradley Birkenfeld, the UBS whistleblower who helped jumpstart the IRS’s enforcement of…