Willard Spokesman - Mandate Is Not A Tax

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Uh-Oh ............ Eric Fehrnstrom, Willard's senior adviser, told MSNBC's Chuck Todd on the Daily Rundown that Mitt Romney agrees with Obama's assessment that the individual mandate is actually just a penalty on freeloaders who don't buy insurance.

Top Romney Advisor Splits With GOP, Says Mandate Is Not A Tax - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-fehrnstrom-mitt-romney-health-care-mandate-not-tax-penalty-2012-7)

[Guest]

Uh-Oh ............ Eric Fehrnstrom, Willard's senior adviser, told MSNBC's Chuck Todd on the Daily Rundown that Mitt Romney agrees with Obama's assessment that the individual mandate is actually just a penalty on freeloaders who don't buy insurance.

Top Romney Advisor Splits With GOP, Says Mandate Is Not A Tax - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-fehrnstrom-mitt-romney-health-care-mandate-not-tax-penalty-2012-7)

Hooray!, you mean to tell me that Romney's guy agrees with me that calling it a tax in total B.S., because InJustice Roberts actually rewrote the Congressional Bill to call it a tax, and that's it's really a mandate that is patently unconstitutional, and more important that you think this is something you like???

You're coming over to my side and I couldn't be more pleased.

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I'm feeling a little patently unconstitutional today.....can you rewrite me? :icon_bored:

[Guest]

I'm feeling a little patently unconstitutional today.....can you rewrite me? :icon_bored:

I think there are laxatives for that :angel:

[Guest]

Uh-Oh ............ Eric Fehrnstrom, Willard's senior adviser, told MSNBC's Chuck Todd on the Daily Rundown that Mitt Romney agrees with Obama's assessment that the individual mandate is actually just a penalty on freeloaders who don't buy insurance.

Top Romney Advisor Splits With GOP, Says Mandate Is Not A Tax - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-fehrnstrom-mitt-romney-health-care-mandate-not-tax-penalty-2012-7)

Of course Eric Fehrnstrom had to call it a penalty, otherwise Mitt Romney would be accused of raising taxes while MA governor when he passed the exact same law.

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You all know, I assume that the President of the US had his attorneys at the Supreme court argue BOTH SIDES of this issue. He called it a mandate before SCOTUS and then changed and called it a tax and as I understand was prepared to change again if necessary !!!

Just for information

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Ultimately, the broccoli argument had to be rephrased: it wasn't that Congress could force you to buy broccoli, but Congress can tax you if you don't.

In spite of the fact that President Obama had explicitly argued in 2009, in a now somewhat infamous interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, that Obamacare did not represent a tax increase:

"For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance, is absolutely not a tax increase. What's it's saying is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you."

—when the Government's lawyers went to work defending the Affordable Care Act in court, they explicitly argued that Congressional taxing authority validated the individual mandate.

Now, in the light of the crushing defeat of conservatives, who had hoped to see Obama's greatest (or most influential) legislative accomplishment overturned as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, many right-wing critics are accusing the President of having misled the American people about Obamacare, to sell them on a tax increase he claimed wasn't one.
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But, for President Obama, it was the tax argument that saved his health care law.

White House tax argument won SCOTUS decision for Obamacare - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com (http://www.examiner.com/article/white-house-tax-argument-won-scotus-decision-for-obamacare)