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Romney Should Showcase Leadership and End Carried Interest: View

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Mitt Romney shouldn’t apologize for being successful. Nor, for that matter, should any American. On this we agree with the founder of private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC and Republican presidential candidate.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a valuable discussion to be had about whether he and others owe some of their success to distortions in the tax code that tilt the playing field and need leveling.