Candidate Romney was so cowed by his party’s obsession with low taxes that he never put forth a budget that added up. It was left to his spinners to explain, as The Economist put it, that this was “necessary rubbish, concocted to persuade the fanatics who vote in the Republican primaries.”
总统候选人罗姆尼是如此畏惧本党对低税率的痴迷以致他从未拿出过任何一个增加预算的提案。正如《经济学人》评论说：这要留给他背后的写手智囊团去解释，这是一个“试图去说服那些在共和党内初选中投票的狂热分子的‘必要的废话’”。