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Mitt Whispers Sweet, Sweet Fiscal Music

From tonight's GOP debate (perhaps slightly paraphrased):

"The new tax rate on dividends and capital gains will be absolutely zero."

For my money, this is the single best fiscal issue for any Republican to run on.  Alas, as I've noted before, Mitt seems to have wavered a smidge on this one.

I'd already been a Romney guy, but he absolutely won me over at CPAC on this issue when he first unfurled it, then broke my heart a month later at the first GOP debate when he seemed to partially back away from this marvelous fiscal position (suggesting it might only apply to low-income Americans).

Tonight, his crystal clarity has won me back.

Not that I ever wavered from my Mitt support, but his answer tonight has re-gained him probationary most-favored-policy status on this vital issue.

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Mitt Whispers Sweet, Sweet Fiscal Music

From tonight's GOP debate (perhaps slightly paraphrased):

"The new tax rate on dividends and capital gains will be absolutely zero."

For my money, this is the single best fiscal issue for any Republican to run on.  Alas, as I've noted before, Mitt seems to have wavered a smidge on this one.

I'd already been a Romney guy, but he absolutely won me over at CPAC on this issue when he first unfurled it, then broke my heart a month later at the first GOP debate when he seemed to partially back away from this marvelous fiscal position (suggesting it might only apply to low-income Americans).

Tonight, his crystal clarity has won me back.

Not that I ever wavered from my Mitt support, but his answer tonight has re-gained him probationary most-favored-policy status on this vital issue.