[ATOMIC_PUNK]

So he's a Conservative-Republican-Liberal-Democrat ?

[Psalm 144]

“So he’s a Conservative-Republican-Liberal-Democrat ? “

Well, that depends. Would you like that? He’ll be whatever you want him to be.

[Will88]

Romney said he agreed with the dissenting opinions on the court, that the mandate is a penalty and not a tax. And practically everyone agrees with that, even most Dims.

But now that the Dims are accepting the court win where the mandate is a tax, then it’s perfectly fair for it to be attacked during the campaign as a tax, and I expect Romney will join attacking it as a tax very soon.

This publication is playing word games and trying to discredit Romney when everyone knows that the entire situation is very ambiguous.

[FlipWilson]

Quote “So he’s a Conservative-Republican-Liberal-Democrat?”

Or you are a “swallow whatever headline the MSM throws at you as gospel and trash first, read later” Freeper.
Of course this is a penalty. As others have already said, Roberts agreed with this at first in order to get around the anti-injunction statutue problem and then promptly found it to be a tax to get around the unconstitutional problem. Speaking of penalties, can we refer to the Supreme Court as the “Robert’s Penalty” imposed on the American People?

[aruanan]

Romney breaks with GOP, says mandate is a penalty, not a tax

Geez, he's right! It IS a penalty. It was ALWAYS a penalty. If you fail to do something and you get stuck by a government body with some monetary obligation as a result of that failure to act, it is a penalty or a fine. It is not a tax. The GOP is simply saying, well, okay, if it's a tax, we'll screw you guys over with that. If it's a penalty, it's unconstitutional. If it's a tax, by Supreme Court precedents on taxation, it's also unconstitutional, regardless of Roberts's blathering. Either way, those pushing Obamacare are effed.

[denydenydeny]

Mark Levin said that we should forget about the mandate being a tax and go after Obamacare on the substance of what it really is.