Willard Romney Vs The GOP: Is The Mandate A TAX?

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ThinkProgress:


" Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the mandate in President Obama’s health care reform functions as a tax, making it constitutional under the federal government’s taxing power. Republicans and conservative media figures immediately jumped on this point, accusing the Obama administration of a massive tax hike. This puts Mitt Romney, the GOP’s presidential candidate, in an awkward spot. He signed precisely the same kind of mandate into law in a health care reform bill in Massachusetts, and his top campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom has explicitly insisted that mandate was NOT A TAX.



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/07/02/510075/mitt-romney-vs-the-gop-is-the-mandate-a-tax/

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1. Uh, er, um, well, ahhh, but-but, you see, ooooh, hmmmm, .........

Wassamatta Mitt, cat got you tongue?

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2. Actually it is not a tax; yes it is a tax. Sincerely, Mitt.