During the campaign, Romney said or did everything on this list: Stated he liked “being able to fire people.” Got into a heated argument with a fairgoer about whether corporations were people. Rolled out a tax policy that gave multimillionaires like him a huge tax cut while raising taxes on the middle class. Argued that Obama should have let the US auto industry go bankrupt, which would have cost tens of thousands of jobs in the industrial Midwest. Chose as his vice president Paul Ryan, a man so committed to privatizing Medicare that he named a Medicare privatization plan after himself.
