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Romney camp sides with Obama that health insurance mandate is not tax
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Posted on 07/03/2012 5:06:20 AM PDT by tsowellfan

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign on Monday rejected a Republican attack on the Affordable Care Act, repudiating a contention made in last week’s Supreme Court decision that the law’s requirement that individuals carry medical coverage amounts to a tax.

The Romney team’s refusal to invoke the word “tax” with regard to the individual mandate puts the candidate at odds with others in his party at a moment when Republicans are attempting to capi­tal­ize on the Supreme Court’s decision, which deemed President Obama’s health-care law constitutional. Some Republican-led states are trying to thwart the legislation’s effort to cover the poor.

In an interview Monday on MSNBC, Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said the former Massachusetts governor “disagrees with the court’s ruling that the mandate was a tax.”

Although disappointing to conservatives, the justices’ decision contained what they regard as two silver linings: the potential to fuel political opposition to the law and a path to undermine its substance.

First, in ruling that Congress has the ability under its taxation power to fine people who choose not to have health coverage, the court undercut Obama’s credibility on how to define that provision. The president had insisted repeatedly that it is not a tax....

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To: tsowellfan

No clearer example of why Romney was never the best choice from the GOP field.

1. Too moderate (I want to get along)
2. His record sucks
3. Foolish to even open his mouth and utter words (He should have just said “I respect the Supreme Court’s decision and will abide by it”.)
4. Out-of-touch with Americans who say “IT IS A TAX, STUPID”
45. Like McCain, trying desparately to fail.

We need new leadership. Sarah, where are you?


21 posted on 07/03/2012 5:45:02 AM PDT by bestintxas (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is missing its Idiot, thankfully.)
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To: tsowellfan

Charles Krauthammer looked foolish on Fox’s Special Report yesterday trying to explain away this stupid blunder by the Romney campaign. Get used to it, Charles. There will be more to follow.


22 posted on 07/03/2012 5:53:35 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: tsowellfan

Fehrnstrom is the idiot who made the infamous “Etch-a-sketch” comment. Judge a candidate by the advisers he keeps.

Fehrnstrom is a first class fool.


23 posted on 07/03/2012 6:04:09 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

Just how pointed are the heads of Romney’s advisors?


24 posted on 07/03/2012 6:09:17 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: tsowellfan
Romney agrees with Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.

I do too. Obamacare is an unconstitutional mandate.

I understand that it's time to play politics and things have to be done and said to win.

However, when I think about it honestly, in my view this is more of a Roberts tax than an Obama tax. The law that Obama passed was and still is unconstitutional. Roberts created his own law.
25 posted on 07/03/2012 6:09:38 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: tsowellfan

The way I see it, it’s a penalty AND a tax.


26 posted on 07/03/2012 6:12:29 AM PDT by crosshairs
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To: tsowellfan

Further proving he’s nothing but Obama-lite.


27 posted on 07/03/2012 6:16:16 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bestintxas

Keep mentioning her.

Either she’ll be VP in 2012, rallying all our side to vote.

Or she’ll be President in 2016.

Or... Both.


28 posted on 07/03/2012 6:18:59 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: tsowellfan
Willard McCain?

Never mind the Romney campaign. Independent PACs will have to drag his pathetic arse across the finish line.

29 posted on 07/03/2012 6:20:22 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: tsowellfan

The GOP does not intend to WIN!!! That’s the real issue here. They are not going to do anything except throw the fight! This is a totally rigged election, like the last one.


30 posted on 07/03/2012 6:20:58 AM PDT by Kratos
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To: tsowellfan

I’ve said RINOmney is a vapid dork.

QED.

Welcome to the world of Obama lite if we elect the dork.

Which, I guess, is better than another four years of the Muslim Cretin.


31 posted on 07/03/2012 6:21:47 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: tsowellfan

Regardless of what “it” is...I’m feeling penalized already...and, I haven’t even refused to buy insurance yet.


32 posted on 07/03/2012 6:25:33 AM PDT by moovova
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To: tsowellfan
What the hell difference does it make if it's a tax or not.

It is TYRANNY!!

33 posted on 07/03/2012 6:27:54 AM PDT by DManA
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To: tsowellfan

This is a lying bullshit article trying to say that Romney agrees with Obama on Obamacare, when he does not.


34 posted on 07/03/2012 6:28:36 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: tsowellfan
Look, the fine or penalty passed by Congress and signed by the President is NOT a tax, no matter what Roberts said.

Is it an excise? No.
Is it a duty? No.
Is it an impost? No.
Is it apportioned among the several States? No.
Is it a tax on income? No.

Therefore, it is not a tax in the forms that the Constitution grants taxing power to Congress.

Republicans who are jumping on the "tax increase" bandwagon are idiots.

35 posted on 07/03/2012 6:29:19 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Anna Wintour makes Teresa Heinz Kerry look like Dolly Parton.)
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To: ncalburt
Are you trying to help the Obama media push this talking point here and divide US and get obama elected !

I don’t trust your motives here !

Can you show me the link where Mitt Romney has come out against THIS biggest tax hike in American history called ObamaCare? You post it here in comments and I will post it on FR (if it does not already have its own thread). Send me the link where Romney calls this for what it really is.

“The president said it was not a tax,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” “The Supreme Court, which has the final say, says it is a tax.”

36 posted on 07/03/2012 6:30:19 AM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com/)
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To: tsowellfan

To the headline: of course he does.


37 posted on 07/03/2012 6:30:46 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Jim Noble

The Supreme Court, which has the final say, says it is a tax.


38 posted on 07/03/2012 6:32:55 AM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com/)
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To: DManA
Judge a candidate by the advisers he keeps.

Ok, and Romney's advisers say he will not repeal obamaCare.

39 posted on 07/03/2012 6:34:56 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: tsowellfan
The Supreme Court, which has the final say, says it is a tax.

And the Supreme Court also says that abortion is a basic human right.
40 posted on 07/03/2012 6:41:01 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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