Conservatives are increasingly worried that Mitt Romneyâs vagueness about tax reform and other policy issues will be his downfall on Election Day.
Romneyâs sympathizers are raising red flags, after he and his running mate repeatedly declined to provide details during a round of Sunday interviews about the loopholes heâd close to pay for large tax rate cuts.
âIf you donât start telling people what you believe â if you really do, in fact, believe in anything â and if you donât start telling people, yes, these are the tax exemptions that weâre going to get taken care of ⦠unless you have somebody thatâs willing to do that, Romneyâs going to lose,â said conservative Joe Scarborough on his MSNBC show Monday. âThe Romney people think they can run a Bob Dole campaign, a John McCain campaign ⦠Republicans do not win by running these types of campaigns.â
The former Republican congressman wasnât the only right-leaning commentator to fret that Romneyâs skittishness is becoming a political liability.
âThe Romney campaign continues looking schizophrenic,â wrote Matt Lewis in a Daily Caller blog post about the candidateâs âsecretâ tax plan. âThis is problematic.
Will implicitly endorsed the conclusion of a study by the Tax Policy Center, which said Romney wonât be able to recover revenues on the scale he needs to via tax loopholes unless he also targets incomes under $200,000. The GOP nominee labeled the study âgarbageâ and biased against conservatives. Conservative economist Martin Feldstein, under highly optimistic economic assumptions for Romney, reached the conclusion that the goals are potentially achievable if his high-end tax cuts spur significant growth and if heâs willing to consider hike tax receipts from families with incomes between $100,000 and $200,000.
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Romneyâs sympathizers are raising red flags, after he and his running mate repeatedly declined to provide details during a round of Sunday interviews about the loopholes heâd close to pay for large tax rate cuts.
âIf you donât start telling people what you believe â if you really do, in fact, believe in anything â and if you donât start telling people, yes, these are the tax exemptions that weâre going to get taken care of ⦠unless you have somebody thatâs willing to do that, Romneyâs going to lose,â said conservative Joe Scarborough on his MSNBC show Monday. âThe Romney people think they can run a Bob Dole campaign, a John McCain campaign ⦠Republicans do not win by running these types of campaigns.â
The former Republican congressman wasnât the only right-leaning commentator to fret that Romneyâs skittishness is becoming a political liability.
âThe Romney campaign continues looking schizophrenic,â wrote Matt Lewis in a Daily Caller blog post about the candidateâs âsecretâ tax plan. âThis is problematic.
Will implicitly endorsed the conclusion of a study by the Tax Policy Center, which said Romney wonât be able to recover revenues on the scale he needs to via tax loopholes unless he also targets incomes under $200,000. The GOP nominee labeled the study âgarbageâ and biased against conservatives. Conservative economist Martin Feldstein, under highly optimistic economic assumptions for Romney, reached the conclusion that the goals are potentially achievable if his high-end tax cuts spur significant growth and if heâs willing to consider hike tax receipts from families with incomes between $100,000 and $200,000.
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