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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:31 PM
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Mitt Romney: 'Raising taxes on corporations is raising taxes on people.'
Republican candidates take their fellow Republicans for fools. Of course, Rush Limbaugh and his ilk work hard prepping them for the big con.
Mitt Romney: Corporations are still people

By MAGGIE HABERMAN
9/21/11 11:20 AM EDT

POLITICO's Reid Epstein reports on Mitt Romney's Florida trip in advance of the debate tomorrow:

Mitt Romney is doubling down on his “corporations are people” line.

Speaking to a town hall-style gathering at a Miami airport hotel, the former Massachusetts governor repeated the line he first said last month at the Iowa State Fair.

“I’ll communicate to the private sector, by the way, that we like you,” Romney said in response to a question about how to encourage banks to lend more money. “We like enterprise. I was in Iowa the other day, and people suggested that we just raise taxes on corporations.”

He went on: “I told them, corporations are people. … Raising taxes on corporations is raising taxes on people.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64030.html
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:34 PM
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1. great then corporations can be held responsible for ALL people laws nt
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Worship Money Donating Member (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:42 PM
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2. And WHY is it that people think...
Edited on Wed Sep-21-11 12:50 PM by Worship Money
That this fucking creep is so much more "moderate" and acceptable than Perry?
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msanthrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:43 PM
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3. "I'll believe a corporation is a person when Texas executes one."
Stolen from Twitter.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:47 PM
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4. A great potential debate question .... "Gov. Perry ...
your opponent Mitt Romney claims corporations are people, as Gov of Texas, how many corporations did you execute?"
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 01:31 PM
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8. How many did you force vaccinations on?
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:48 PM
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5. Good one!
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:56 PM
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6. So, what's his point? People pay taxes. nt
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BadgerKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 01:29 PM
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7. Is monopoly creation murder or manslaughter? n/t
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 01:42 PM
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9. Corporations are people, my friend!
My God is Romney a fucking sleazy douchebag or WHAT?
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:25 PM
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10. He's the village idiot
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:28 PM
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11. If they pass the cost on to the consumer perhaps.
Edited on Wed Sep-21-11 02:28 PM by hack89
hard to imagine a corporation doing such a thing though.
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