Romney: $40 Would Make a ‘Substantial Difference’ to American Families
EmailLANCASTER, N.H. – Mitt Romney today said that the $40 many Americans would lose if the payroll tax holiday isn’t extended would make a “very substantial difference” to those who would be without it.
“It’ll be the difference between having a meal that includes meat or just Hamburger Helper,” said Romney in an interview with ABC News’ John Berman aboard his new campaign bus in northern New Hampshire. “It could be the difference between being able to take your family to McDonald’s at the end of the week. It means the difference between being able to go to a movie or not going to a movie.”
“It makes a real difference to the American people,” he said.
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Romney said that he believes both Republicans and Democrats need to “sit down and work out” a deal regarding the payroll tax extension, and that it was time to “put the sausage in the sausage grinder and come out with a bill that provides an ongoing payroll tax holiday.”
Often repeating on the trail that the “economy is his wheelhouse,” emphasizing his experience in the private sector as the quality that makes him best fit to replace President Barack Obama, Romney said he did not think an improvement in the country’s economy would detract from his campaign message.
“Look, I’m very much in favor of an improving economy; I want to see America go back to work,” said Romney. “The reality is that the economy is going to get better, it always does. The question is how long will this economy have been held down by this president’s policies. I’ll make the point very clearly that this is the slowest recovery since [President Hoover]. The president’s policies have not worked.”
As his bus rolled on between Littleton and Lancaster on the second day of his “Earn It” bus tour through the Granite State, Romney declined an offer from former Speaker Newt Gingrich to debate him one-on-one.
“My view is that I’m going to debate with all the contenders,” said Romney. “Why would I have a debate without the other leading people in this race, and the other candidates? Only a few months ago Speaker Gingrich was in low, single-digit numbers, we didn’t say, ‘O.K., let’s not debate Speaker Gingrich, let’s only debate Rick Perry.”
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Romney who is eager to wage a war against Iran While Ron Paul is at the top of the polls in Iowa showing the heartland of America is sick of policing the world at the cost of our young men and woman dying and trillions of dollars of debt, So who cares who want’s to vote Romney
A vote for Romney is a vote is a vote to continue Obama’s policy’s 1) more war in Afghanistan. 2) More Bank and corporations bailouts. 3) More mandatory universal health care. 4) pro war and police the world.
Come on lets get back to what our founders said in the constitution 1) only go to war with congress approval. 2) Transfer the right to coin monies to congress and abolish the private Federal reserve. 3) Mandatory health care is not in the constitution. 4) President Washington and Jefferson warned us to avoid and beware of foreign entanglements.
So a Vote for Ron Paul is a vote to uphold the constitution. A vote against Ron Paul is not honoring our fore father’s Washington and Jefferson’s warnings. PLEASE Do your own research vote for the constitution. All public servants and military take an oath to uphold the constitution. lets start by reading it.
Posted by: paul | December 23, 2011, 1:58 am 1:58 am
If 40 dollars make a difference why not 80 or a hundred? All this is nothing but pandering to a base of people who could care less that stunts like this will make it difficult on someone else and those “someones” are those who will pay more for a mortgage to fund this nonsense. Our Government is led at the three levels by the three stooges who have no imagination, no creativity and with three million less jobs now than there was a few years back all of them should be ashamed.
Posted by: david | December 23, 2011, 11:31 am 11:31 am