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Mitt Romney unapologetically pitched his RomneyCare plan at CPAC, along with the general conservative laundry list of issues. It was enough to win him the straw poll.

Color me doubtful. Marc Kilmer has a better view on health insurance. Health care is already socialized. The statists are just doing mop-up work now. We’re facing a decades long battle to de-socialize it.

But Romney has a better idea elsewhere: Zero tax on investments. Well, sort of. Here’s what he said:

The surest, most obvious way to grow our investment capital pool is to rule out higher taxes on investment. I propose going one step further. For all middle class Americans, the tax on interest, dividends and capital gains should be absolutely zero.

Why middle class Americans? I mean, surely them, but also the poor and–here’s a shocker–especially the rich. You see, the rich have more capital, and the beneficiaries of their using that capital–brace yourself–are primarily the poor. I mean, I don’t want to make Obama’s head spin, but when you go to get a job, you really hope there is someone there to offer it to you. Only in Obamaland do all jobs and all wealth come from the government; here in the United States, the government can’t offer you anything except socialism, which is only poverty.

Now if only somewhere in America there were someone who understood this and could be relied upon to stick with it. It isn’t Romney, who has already shown he doesn’t get it; he’s just good at looking like he gets it while undercutting any true progress.

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