So now even Mitt Romney wants to tax the rich
“On the tax front,” says Mitt Romney, “it’s time for rich people like me to pay more.” It’s always slightly annoying for regular Americans when squillionaires announce that people like them ought to be contributing more to the Treasury. (Nobody’s stopping you from writing a big cheque, Mitt!) But Romney’s intervention in today’s New York Times is noteworthy. It is the clearest sign yet that the pre-Trump Republican party, the party of Bain Capital, hyper-capitalism and asset-stripping, is adapting to a new political reality. And it’s now willing to go after the assets of the billionaires. Romney’s logic is hard to refute. Social security and entitlements are bankrupting America. If, as the Congressional Budget Office
