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Whoops! Romney’s goof gives tax break to rich

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So which would be worse: if the governor repealed the excise tax on the Bentleys and other high-end custom cars that his rich buddies drive, or if he were so incompetent that Massachusetts’s richest drivers got a tax break accidentally?

If you guessed for the latter, you’d be describing Mitt Romney:

BOSTON — Some luxury and customized car owners got a free ride when it came to paying their local excise taxes thanks to a cost-cutting attempt by former Governor Mitt Romney.

The glitch, which undertaxed at least 124,000 owners of Bentleys, motor homes, and customized vehicles statewide, added up to $6.5 million meant for cities and towns….

The hiccup occurred in 2003 when Romney reassigned some employees at the registry of Motor Vehicles, said RMV head Anne Collins….

Romney reassigned the workers who had filled in the manual values, and the vehicles were either given a default value or no value at all.

Funny how Romney’s screw-ups never end up helping the little guy.

(From the Sentinel and Enterprise)

Cross posted at NoDrumlins.

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  1. Exactly how did this escape the notice of the REGISTRAR for four years?  Anne Collins doesn’t know what her OWN AGENCY PERSONNEL are doing?  For that matter, her Swift-appointed predecessor, Kim Hinden, was Registrar when the change was made.  In 2003, there were layoffs, etc., due to the billion dollar budget crunch.  So people were moved to cover – fine.  But did Kim Hinden just never TELL Anne Collins that the manual excise wasn’t being done when she left in 2005? 

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    This is buck-passing extraordinaire.

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    Gee, I wonder which of the GOP holdovers will be keeping her job….

    • hey!  look over there!  elvis!!

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      [translated from the porcupinish above]

  2. You remember, the ones that he reportedly bought at below market value, having been steered to a “nice deal” by a State House lobbyist…????

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    Our democracy is so very very broken

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    and people are paying with their lives

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    and their dignity

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    …not that “The haves” even care…

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