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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‘As much as I hate to agree with Mitt’
kinda says it all doesn’t it about what’s going on in this forum.
Yep
Kepp talking yourself into un-election, Willard.
Your question is based on a logical flaw.
Saying that both are socialists does not mean that there is “no difference” between the two. That is a straw man.
Nevertheless, both men are generally supportive of larger, more expansive government and less freedom - at least if their respective records are to be believed.
Your attitude is based on a logical flaw.
We must elect Romney. He is light years different from Obama.
I am sick of people trying to say they are the same.
Just because Romney doesn’t share every jot and tittle of your viewpoints does not make him a socialist.
He is a capitalist and a successful one. If he does nothing else, he will turn the country back into a capitalist direction.
I hope Romney makes an inspired choice for vice president.
Something tells me the peasants are going to storm the castle with pitchforks and torches before Romney’s first term is up. Hopefully his veep will be better at thinking and acting like a conservative.
They are far from the same but I'm NOT not going to lie to myself by claiming he's a republican and I'm not going to let RINO supporters insult my intelligence by telling me he's not a liberal.
If he is a capitalist he would be against social programs and high taxes.
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