Report: Mitt Romney Proposed Charging A Fee For Being Mentally Retarded or Blind

[Pirate Smile]

This is from January but I missed it then. There's Mitt - loving regressive fees.

REPORT: Mitt Romney Proposed Charging A Fee For Being Mentally Retarded

Last night Buzzfeed discovered a full copy of John McCain's 2008 playbook for beating Mitt Romney. 
It is pretty well-known among political junkies that Mitt Romney imposed a lot of new fees in Massachusetts to balance the budget without raising taxes. 

But what is not well known is how crazy and offensive these fees could be.
Here are the two craziest we could find: 

Romney Charged A Fee For Being Blind. “It now costs to be blind in Massachusetts. The state’s approximately 35,000 blind and legally blind residents must now pay $10 annually for a certificate of blindness and $15 every four years for a blind identification card. Without the formerly-free documents, blind people cannot take advantage of tax abatements, affordable housing programs, health care services, transportation discounts and other benefits. ... The fees originated in February, in Gov. Mitt Romney’s budget proposal for fiscal 2004.” (Shaun Sutner, “Advocates Fight Fees For The Blind,” Telegram & Gazette, 8/5/03)

Romney Also Proposed Imposing A Fee On The Mentally Retarded. “The committee will also accept most of the fee recommendations made by Romney, Rogers said, but would not endorse ... a new fee for some mentally retarded citizens...” (Jennifer Peter, “House Leaders Agree With Romney’s Plan To Eliminate Urban Park Agency,” The Associated Press, 4/16/03)
No one has brought this out in an attack ad-yet, but they should. 

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-mitt-romney-proposed-charging-a-fee-for-being-mentally-retarded-2012-1?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics#ixzz1whKE9M5Y

As the Obama Campaign said regarding Romney ~ "He's Never Been in it for YOU".

[freshwest]

1. The MR and otherwise disabled are always first on the GOP guillotine.

'Worthless Mouths,' as another fine group of politicans once said.

There is little difference between a Randian Republican and the Third Reich when you line up the end results.

Oh, and by the way, Fuck Ron Paul.

[roguevalley]

5. +google, freshwest

[freshwest]

7. Meaning what?

[eppur_se_muova]

13. I think you mean a googol ...

A googol is the large number 10¹⁰⁰; that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes:

10,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

[sofa king]

14. That's how much more Romney needs to spend to win.

[redwitch]

18. DUZY!

This thread is full of contenders for that coveted award. Thanks for making me laugh. XO

[mindwalker_i]

2. Hows about we impose a fee for ACTING mentally retarded

The we can eliminate the deficit at the expense of the GOP

[Marie Marie]

4. Excellent - and have a surplus to boot.

[meow2u3]

15. Even better: how about imposing a fee for the MORALLY retarded?

Let's call it the narcissist tax. All megalomaniacs and selfish, Republican fat cats have to pay triple the top tax rate without any loopholes.

[sakabatou]

3. O.o?!

[1000 Words]

6. 6

[Angry Dragon]

8. I guess he figures fees are not really taxes

They should charge people fees if they make more than 1 million dollars because that really is not taxes according to the republicans

[pansypoo53219]

9. how does grover fucking norquist feel about FEES.

you know, TAXES.

[Jamaal510]

10. He hates them

unless someone else has to pay.

[madinmaryland]

16. When is that douchebag going to drown in his own fucking bathtub.

[yangzhen76]

11. Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team)

[tanyev]

12. Ooh, bet that's going to get an angry Facebook post from Mama Grizzly.

Not.

[ilikeitthatway]

17. The Obama team should just produce and handout books and dvds

with all the dirt they have on Romney. Romney's crap could fill an encyclopedia.