Posted by
Conservative Wordsmith on Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:28:32 PM
Conservative Wordsmith Susan Baldwin writes: According to a recent interview with Mitt Romney, Mitt is the only GOP candidate that has signed a no-tax pledge. Mitt said that the great King Kong himself would have to attack California in order for him to reconsider the possibility of giving up this pledge! Mitt has a great sense of humor that I have learned to appreciate, plus he is totally committed to America and Americans in every conceivable way.
Cavuto: "'So you can never see a situation where you might have to abandon that pledge?'"
Governor Romney: "'If King Kong attacks California, why, we'd obviously have to reconsider, but that's not...'"
Cavuto: "'Would you ever envision a scenario where you'd entertain [raising taxes]?'"
Governor Romney: "'No, no the right answer is not to raise taxes on the American people and whether you're talking about capital gains tax or the ordinary income tax or the death tax or the Social Security tax, you don't want to raise taxes on people. We're taxing enough. The question is how do we spend our money more wisely and which programs are actually effective.'"
"'When I came into the Olympics, for instance, I found out we had to cut our budget by $200 million and people said that's impossible. But you know, we did it. It took us a long time, we worked it through, we looked at all the things we were doing, we said, 'These are nice things to do, nice to have, but they're not need-to-have.' And in a country like ours, given the challenges we face globally, we're going to have to cut back to the need-to-have programs; the true safety-net programs, our military programs, but other sort of Congressional ideas that have been hanging around for years that aren't getting a lot done, we're going to pare some of those back or eliminate them all together.'"
Thanks to the press release called "In Case You Missed It: Governor Romney On The Need To Lower Taxes - Governor Mitt Romney
Fox Business Network's "Cavuto"
October 15, 2007 for the above quotations.
Click here to read the entire interview. To watch Governor
Mitt Romney, click
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_FN_dfXhSaQ.
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