Mitt Romney likes to throw the liberal label at other candidates. But, his own record as Governor of Massachusetts could easily wear that same name tag. He claims to have not raised taxes, only government mandated “fees.” In reality, these fees are nothing but taxes and Romney raised them to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. His liberal agenda didn’t stop with taxes, though … here is The Center for Small Government on RomneyCare:
His grande finale was the worst of all: RomneyCare, Mitt Romney’s version of socialized medicine.
By his own admission, he didn’t plan his socialized medicine scheme until after the 2002 election.
During Romney’s governor campaign, he convinced voters that his Democrat rival would be worse – because she would saddle us with socialist tax and spend policies, he said.
But soon after he was elected, Romney started the drumbeat for socialized medicine. Three years later, he signed RomneyCare into law.
Voters of Massachusetts did not vote for RomneyCare. Mitt Romney foisted the granddaddy of Big Government expansions upon them without warning. He championed it from the beginning. Again, without any prodding from his Democrat rivals.
When Romney ran for U.S. Senate in 1994, his campaign popularized the derogatory term “Kennedy country” to describe the devastating effects of Ted Kennedy’s “liberal social programs” on poor neighborhoods in Massachusetts.
Yet Mitt Romney stood proudly with Kennedy while he signed RomneyCare into law.
Ted Kennedy has pushed for socialized medicine for decades. Romney fulfilled his dream. Kennedy lobbied the legislature hard to get Romney’s bill passed. It was a Romney-Kennedy alliance.
Welcome to Massachusetts: Romney-Kennedy country.
Romney’s socialized medicine law mandates everyone who doesn’t have insurance to buy it – or suffer income tax penalties. There’s yet another “off budget” Mitt Romney tax increase.
If you look closely at Romney’s sweeping, socialized medicine law, it’s as scary as anything Hillary Clinton ever put on the table. It creates or expands twelve state health care bureaucracies. It gives a seat on the boards of these bureaucracies to groups that expressly advocate socialized medicine such as Health Care For All. Thanks to Romney, the hard-earned money of taxpayers is funding socialist organizations who are now on the government dole – and who will soon be in control of the health care of every Massachusetts citizen.
Romney’s mandate will cost individual taxpayers many thousands of dollars every year in health insurance premiums for unwanted, lousy, over-priced policies – loaded with co-pays, deductibles and exclusions – or force them to pay thousands of dollars every year in new income tax penalties.
The total cost of RomneyCare in mandates and new spending? At least several billion dollars every year – to start. It will rise from there, as socialized medicine programs are wont to do. The current governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, predicts that “healthcare costs are likely to take up half the state budget within the next 10 years.” (Boston Globe 9/29/07).
Romney’s law goes into full effect in 2009. Unless it’s repealed before then, the loudest screams of protest from Massachusetts won’t be heard until after the 2008 presidential election is over. Romney’s time release tax increase.
January 25, 2008 at 7:39 pm
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