Some Facts Don't Fly
Romney: I think it's appropriate if the state is providing a service ... that to charge a fee sufficient to do so makes a lot of sense. And so the fees ought to be adjusted from time to time to compose the amount of what the cost of providing that service, and if there hasn't been a fee raise in a couple of decades, you probably have some inflation in there you ought to adjust for.
This is also misleading. The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation noted that fees for registering deeds increased by $170 million between 2001 and 2004 and characterized those fees as "far in excess of any reasonable measure of the cost of services." And the increases in fees overall were "unquestionably" greater than what inflation would account for since the last time they were raised, says MTF's president, Michael Widmer. "It was certainly well more than inflation, way more than inflation," he says. "And it wasn't tied to any analysis of the cost of delivering those services. It was a budget-closing exercise."
Romney: Passing the Buck on Costs
Romney misleadingly tried to pass the buck to his successor in Massachusetts for the increasing costs of the state health care plan:
Romney: The bill that I submitted to the legislature didn't cost one dollar more than what we were already spending. However, the legislature and now the new Democratic governor have added some bells and whistles, and they're willing to pay for them.
Actually, the reason the Massachusetts health care plan has cost more than the state had anticipated is because so many more people have enrolled in subsidized care than was projected, according to the Commonwealth Connector, the independent agency charged with implementing the health care law. The agency also believes the number of the uninsured in Massachusetts had been underestimated. When we asked Dick Powers, the Connector's spokesman, if there were any additional features added by Gov. Deval Patrick or the current Legislature that would have upped the cost, he said, "No."
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Posted By: M_Whetstone @ 02/07/2008 3:33:20 PM
Comment: sorry, i didnt intend for this below to post three time, i dont know how that happened. Sorry again!
Posted By: M_Whetstone @ 02/07/2008 2:47:58 PM
Comment: I find it very interesting that with all the facts given by both McCain and Romney, they were wrong on many different areas of their own back patting. But because people are easily influenced by the most popular guy on the news that week they still seen to follow them like sick little puppy dogs. I understand that the news hates to give a "fair and balanced" view on anything that cannot benefit them financially, but i find it sickening when they completely ignore people that have their own voice and ideas that arent "main stream". People like Ron Paul will never be elected because there are other people out there that dont see the financial gain in supporting him. They'll even go as far as to cut him off in debates and try to exclude him all together. This is a flashback to the time when Harry Brown ran for office as Libertarian and the two "major" parties did everything in their power to make sure you as a people didnt hear thing that might benefit you as a whole. Ron Paul isnt that radical, he isnt crazy by any means, he just want to give everyone back what they've been loosing for years, your own identity and your ability to make decisions that make sense for you and you alone. As a whole we really need to think about why we spend so much time worrying about what everyone else is doing with their lives and start living their own. However, unless people in the main stream media openly support people like Ron Paul then this country will never be what it is truly supposed to be, free and independent and a mecca for individual civil liberties. So to those closed minded sheeple, keep following the herd and let them lead you nowhere.
Posted By: M_Whetstone @ 02/07/2008 2:47:43 PM
Comment: I find it very interesting that with all the facts given by both McCain and Romney, they were wrong on many different areas of their own back patting. But because people are easily influenced by the most popular guy on the news that week they still seen to follow them like sick little puppy dogs. I understand that the news hates to give a "fair and balanced" view on anything that cannot benefit them financially, but i find it sickening when they completely ignore people that have their own voice and ideas that arent "main stream". People like Ron Paul will never be elected because there are other people out there that dont see the financial gain in supporting him. They'll even go as far as to cut him off in debates and try to exclude him all together. This is a flashback to the time when Harry Brown ran for office as Libertarian and the two "major" parties did everything in their power to make sure you as a people didnt hear thing that might benefit you as a whole. Ron Paul isnt that radical, he isnt crazy by any means, he just want to give everyone back what they've been loosing for years, your own identity and your ability to make decisions that make sense for you and you alone. As a whole we really need to think about why we spend so much time worrying about what everyone else is doing with their lives and start living their own. However, unless people in the main stream media openly support people like Ron Paul then this country will never be what it is truly supposed to be, free and independent and a mecca for individual civil liberties. So to those closed minded sheeple, keep following the herd and let them lead you nowhere.