Why didn't Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney sign the pledge for lowering taxes?

Answer 1

the upper class benefits from higher taxes

although if you were interested in lowering taxes, you should be interested in completely GETTING RID OF TAXES.

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Answer 2

If you are talking about the pledge mentioned in last nights debate, then you are referring to Senator McCain and Rudy Giuliani, not Mitt Romney. Romney signed the pledge.

Giuliani argued something along the lines of if he was to sign this particular pledge, there would be literally thousands of other pledges people would present to him to sign.

I like how McCain defended himself in not signing the pledge. If you look at his record, it's consistent with lowering and helping keep taxes low. He basically wants people to believe and trust him based on his record, not because he signed a pledge.

Answer 3

they're 2 faces on a similar time table. once you vote Republican you're actually not vote casting for a guy yet for an time table. The president is purely a 'spokesmodel', the actual coverage is made via a shadowy cabal of coverage-makers in the back of the curtain. because of the fact of this GW Bush made this way of reliable candidate for the GOP, a guy with out coverage concepts or time table of his very own, who might purely study what they put in front of him. have not you spotted that all of the main considerable Republican applicants have each of a similar positions and comments on each of a similar themes? those are the genuine social gathering positions. Ron Paul is the only maverick, and the social gathering management hates his guts, because of the fact they are able to't have confidence him to fulfill their time table. I do have confidence that Romney has slightly greater integrity than Giuliani, yet it is a low bar, isn't it? they're the two paying for into the time table, that's the concentration of wealth, corporatization of u.s., polarization of the human beings, and 'win at any value'.

Answer 4

Because maybe they thought signing such a meaningless piece of paper to make some feel better, is silly. I mean, really, what are you going to do about it if Hillary signed the pledge for lowering taxes and she, God forbid, wins the election and then gives some excuse of why she has to break her pledge and raises taxes? Sue?

Answer 5

they cant lower taxes for regular people not with 36 million and 42 million in campaign funds from special interests and corps the tax breaks will go where they have always gone for the last 20 years to the large corporations so their bottom lines grow and they can claim the economy is doing great

Answer 6

because neither of them are conservatives. Giuliani ran in New York as liberal, something Republicans never mention or even notice.

Romney is Mr. Image. No real political affiliations: just a corporate kind of guy, a la Reagan.

These two will be the GOP nominees you know. Not conservative in the least.

Answer 7

Maybe these guys are realisic to realize that, maybe one day they'll have to,

This is not making a promise and having to break it later.

What is quite common is, for politicians to do is, promise not to raise taxes, then later, say "I mean raise someone else's taxes."

Answer 8

Because they are realistic in this regards (about the only thing I agree with them).

The US cannot continue to run $1-2 trillion dollar annual deficits without making up some of that lost revenue in form of taxation.

Answer 9

Just like George H.W. Bush and the read my lips thing. Two years later the highest tax hike in history. They don't want to be seen as hypocirtes. Too many of them already.

Answer 10

Because it's a stupid pledge.