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08-30-2012, 08:54 PM
vector Wrote:now this is how romney balanced mass budgetI think that is the worst job that you have done as a plagiarist, vector. Are you too lazy to even remove the footnote numbers from the words that you stole?
Romney refused to sign an anti-tax pledge put forth by Grover Norquist's
Americans for Tax Reform while campaigning for office.[5] In 2002, Romney
presented a plan to balance the Massachusetts budget without raising taxes.[2][6][7]
Upon entering office, Romney faced a $3 billion deficit.
Facing an immediate fiscal shortfall, the governor asked
the state legislature for emergency powers to make "9C authority"
cuts to the fiscal year 2003 budget. (Massachusetts' fiscal year Y
runs from July 1 of year Y-1 to June 30 of Y.) Romney cut spending
and restructured state government.[8] Romney, in concert with the
legislature, doubled fees for court filings, professional regulations,
marriage licenses and firearm licenses, increased fees for many other
state licenses and services as well as creating new fees. In all 33
new fees were created and 57 fees were increased, including some that
had not been adjusted in over a decade. Some of these were service fees,
such as charging businesses more to put up signs. Opponents said the
reliance on fees imposed a hardship on those who could least afford them.[9]
The state of Massachusetts thereby raised $501 million in new income in
Romneys' first year, more than any other state in the nation
(New York was second with $367 million.) Nine other states raised
fees and fines by more than $100 million).[10][11] Romney also
increased a state gasoline special fee, dedicated towards cleanup
of contamination around underground fuel storage tanks. An increase
in two cents per gallon, generated about $60 million per year in
additional revenue.[3] This made for a total effective state gasoline
tax of 23.5 cents per gallon,[3] compared with the national average of
28.6 cents per gallon.[12]
Romney also implemented a "New Market Tax Credit"[13] and extended the
"Investment Tax Credit" during 2003.[14]
The capital gains tax revenue from previously enacted
capital gains tax increase reduced the deficit by $1.3 billion.
Romney approved $128 million in tax changes and raised another
$181 million in additional business taxes in the next two years;
businesses called these changes tax increases, but Romney defended
them as the elimination of "loopholes".[3][15][16][17] Specific
changes and 'loophole' closures included preventing corporations
from assigning income from "intangible" assets such as trademarks
to low-tax states, preventing some corporations from avoiding taxes
through paper restructurings, equalizing the rate paid by businesses
that only traded securities to that of other businesses, applying sales
taxes to goods bought and modified out of state before being brought in-state,
eliminating a tax break of the printing of huge store catalogs, and equalizing
sales tax for packaged software products downloaded over the Internet to that
of product CDs bought in a store.[15][18
now since romney has signed Grover Norquist's anti tax pledge
he has put himself in a corner
but if he gets elected i believe he will move to the middle and
raise revenue since he had to raise taxs when he was gov
but rember mass has a balance budget amendent
now rember he is the father of obamacare
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