He opposes raising taxes, but has no problem raising "fees." Some high lights or low lights depending on who you ask include or would have included…
Also under Romney’s plan, the state Department of Mental Retardation would have charged a fee of 0 to determine a client’s eligibility and the Department of Public Health would have charged for initial tuberculosis tests. Another 0 fee would have been assessed for those who tested positive. Those proposals were ultimately rejected.
Prisoners also would have paid more. Romney’s plan would have hiked the cost of a phone call from behind bars to from 86 cents. The price is still 86 cents.
Under Romney’s plan for Massachusetts, the cost of registering firearms would have jumped from to . He also called for increases in the cost of firearm identification cards, application fees for a license to carry firearms, and gun dealer fees.
In all, then-Gov. Romney proposed creating 33 new fees and increasing 57 others — enough, he said, to pull in an extra million for the cash-strapped state.

"It’s a shell game," said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. "He can still say he didn’t raise taxes, but fees are taxes by another name. It’s a trick."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_el_pr/romney_fees;_ylt=AucWBWisO.ZWzOs3SloMll2s0NUE

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