Chris Moody of The Ticket reports that :
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has added a new item to his repertoire of attacks against Mitt Romney since his decision to turn up the heat on the former governor, telling a local Republican group on Friday that Romney raised taxes on the blind.
“Governor Romney … promised that he wouldn’t raise taxes. Well it was only $750 million in tax increases,” Gingrich told the Hillsborough County Republicans. “Including, strangely enough, a tax on people who are blind. Now, I know they were scraping the bottom of the barrel, but surely there are ways to avoid taxing people who are blind.”
So what was he talking about? In 2007, Romney proposed millions in fees to pay for balancing the state budget, including one fee that charged $10 to receive a state certificate of blindness. It was later repealed.
A ten dollar fee? That’s taxing the blind? Really, Newt?
My guess is a $10 administrative fee was required for all applications for state certifications and the blindness certification just got lumped in with the rest.
Weak, Newt. Very weak.
3 responses so far ↓
1 HappyTaxDude // Jan 9, 2012 at 10:12 am
A drowning man will grab anything to try to stay afloat.
2 Tim Yeager // Jan 10, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Newt is very desperate. The next thing he is doing is running a 27 minute documentary about what an evil capitalist Romney is/was at Bain Capital.
3 Peter // Jan 11, 2012 at 10:00 am
Tim,
I agree. Republicans attacking capitalism does not bode well for either the party or the country.