I always find it just amazing when conservatives raise “fees” on pretty much everything we do but then say they never raised taxes.  Well – you know what … taxes pay for services by the government.  And if you’re going to make me pay more for a service by government whether state, local or federal – that IS A TAX.

People can be stupid but they’re not that stupid.  Here is a video of Mitt Romney talking about his record of “raising fees”.  He literally said:

“Q.  Isn’t a fee a tax?
A.  If it were a tax – we’d call it a tax.
Q.  But Governor – that’s a gimmick.”

Buzzfeed has a list of fees that Mitt Romney either passed or attempted to pass – you can find them all HERE:

1. A fee on the blind
2. A fee for the mentally handicapped
3. A fee for having tuberculosis
4. A fee on volunteer firefighters and EMT’s
5. A fee for golfing
6. A fee for cremating the dead
7. A fee for prison phone calls
8. A fee for driving permits
9. Quadrupling already existing gun fees
10. A fee for cottages
11. A fee on ice skaters
12. A fee for barbers
13. A fee for hairdressers
14. A fee on nurses
15. A fee on pharmacists
16. A fee on plumbers
17. A fee on pscyhologists
18. A fee on Realtors
19. A fee on home inspectors
20. A fee on auto repair shops
21. A fee for divorce
22. A fee for changing your name
23. A fee on milk
24. A fee on funeral directors

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