What will it take to win the Republican nomination for president in 2008? Mitt Romney seems to be placing a bet on tax cuts, reports Donald Lambro. He recently addressed the Detroit Economic Club.
"What is the better course for America? A European model of high taxes and regulations, or low taxes and free trade, the Ronald Reagan model? That’s the choice the next president is going to make," he said, adding ominously that the Democrats were "already working hard to implement a massive tax increase."
As the saying goes, if Republicans don’t stand for tax cuts, who will?
Romney is not just giving speeches about tax cuts, he is loading up his team with tax cutters.
- Vin Weber, “who is chairman of Mr. Romney’s domestic policy board”
- Cesar Conda, “a key player in Republican tax cut battles of the last two decades”
- R. Glenn Hubbard, a “staunch tax cutter”
- N. Gregory Mankiw, “a free market economist at Harvard”
- John Cogan, “one of the architects of the Bush tax cut plan.”
- Brian Reardon, “helped put together the president’s 2003 plan to accelerate the tax cuts”
What do you call a team like that? Lambro calls them “committed Reaganite supply-siders.”
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