Romney seeks power, and the Bush Machine feels that he has potential, and he realizes that Karl Rove is the guru who took a recovering alcoholic, who depended on his daddy to get him jobs, and in short order made him Governor of Texas and then President of the United States.

So Romney says what they tell him to say, because if you are going to fool people into electing you president, first you have to fool people into nominating you.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address