Mitt Romney, the conservative hope for many Republicans, wants to go even further down the socialist path than President Obama, it sounds like. It’s just that he is being a populist rather than a statist. From Romney balks at government ownership of GM:
The Obama administration and the United Auto Workers should immediately distribute their stock in a restructured GM to American taxpayers, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Sunday.
“We don’t want a president and the head of the UAW running General Motors,” Romney, a Michigan native and son of former Gov. George Romney, said in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
Romney suggested that the roughly 70 percent of GM that the government could own after it emerges from bankruptcy should be immediately distributed to taxpayers, and the 17.5 percent that will go to a UAW trust fund for retiree healthcare should be handed out to UAW members.
Aren’t there any truly conservative solutions? Or conservative politicians with different ideas?
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