Aide: Romney sees mandate as a penalty, not a tax

Associated Press ^ | July 2, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON (AP) - A top adviser says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn't see the health care mandate as a tax but as a penalty or a fee or even a fine.

That's a different view from Republicans who are condemning the individual mandate in President Barack Obama's health care law as a tax instead of a penalty, as Obama prefers to call it.

[altura]

Oh, wow. I’m excited.

Every day people here post things apparently aimed at discrediting Romney.

How many here thought this was a tax before the Roberts ruling?

It doesn’t matter.

Nothing matters to some of the liberals/weirdos here who are determined to post anything they can find detrimental to Romney.

There’s only one reason for this. Don’t listen to their self-righteous screeds about their morals. Don’t listen to their hopeless rants that there is no difference between the candidates.

Why are they even here on a ‘conservative’ forum promoting the election of Barak Hussein Obama?

[BelegStrongbow]

*sigh*

Can’t even feel snarky enough to cynically comment. So sad, so very sad.

[muawiyah]

As has been 'splained to you a gazillion times (even by Br'r levine last evening ~ yup, i heard it) Hairy Reed took a bill that'd been passed by the House and sent over to the Senate and submitted it with amendments ~ which turned it into obamakKKare.

So, the bill originated in the House and was amended in the Senate.

It met that part of the Constitution if nothing else.

Next time pay attention to Mark then you won't have to ask me.

[rogue yam]

Why are they even here on a ‘conservative’ forum promoting the election of Barak Hussein Obama?

I have been asking this question for months.

[altura]

48% love obama?

Well add in the 50% of people here on Free Republic who ACT LIKE they love Obama and refuse to support Romney and...

Oh, I see my big black lab, Bubba, lying on the couch watching me. I think I’ll discuss the situation with him... I’d have more luck getting through.

[Eva]

It’s time for Romney to admit that this is an ABO election, that is Anyone But Obama. Too many people are not excited about voting for Romney, but will vote ABO for Romney.

[greeneyes]

Cheer up. We won’t be burdened with Obama care for long - we are too far in deep doodoo financially. It will all come tumbling down, if not repealed.

Then we get to live through some lawlessness and hard times. Eventually things change for the better, after we hit bottom. Just a question of how long.

[SoConPubbie]

I am so damn tired of so many people on here giving up; doing nothing but bitching with no suggestions and sure as hell no solutions. I'll tell you what. Why don't you just go ahead and give up; bend over for the Pubbies and the 'Rats and hope that they'll use lube and leave some change on the dresser for you? Hell, let's all just go ahead, let Obama, Boehner, Reid, Mitch McConnell.... all of them just rape us and do the best we can to enjoy it. Let's throw in the towel. Mitch McConnell already has.

There was no defeatism in my post, however, in yours, there was, because you know that Romney and the RINOs will do exactly what I stated but you are still going to move forward supporting this nonsense of "Repeal and Replace".

My goal is to continue to get Tea-Party patriots elected to congress hopefully building up enough of a coalition that we can actually get a free-market approach to health-care that does not include the ugly socialistic ideas of an Individual Mandate and redistribution of wealth that Mitt Romney's "Replacement" will contain.

[LibLieSlayer]

obama will get at least 48% of the vote (unless he wins and then it will be a higher percentage)... he received 53+% of the vote in 2008. When polls of adults and not likely voters is taken... the general public likes him even more than Likely or Registered voters do... so America is filled with half Patriots and half nanny State socialists, anarchists and communists... with sprinklings of other evil cabals. I do not like these facts... but I am through lying to myself and my fellow Conservatives. I did not pull that figure out of the air... I looked at past election results... past political trends, the manipulation of societal norms by the left and modern polling results.

We may only be able to save part of our magnificent Republic... some sections of it may be lost to the darkness forever. When growing up, would you ever have believed that GOD would be hated and despised in places like networks and news rooms, newspapers and hollywood? Black is white, up is down, good is bad, bad is good, kindness is weakness and rage is cool. We truly are living in the worst of modern times... and I fear it will worsen far more before the light shines upon us again.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Good morning Altura,

I despise obama... I try hard not to hate because I know it is wrong to hate and it hurts me more than those I despise so I am trying hard not to allow hatred into my heart. This trend of associating the distrust and outright dislike of what the gop/e has become and how they treat us and how they lie and obfuscate... how any means justifies the end that THEY WANT... and their hand picked and manufactured candidate romney and all of his progressive ideology and past governing record... is somehow showing support for obama... must stop.

Do you truly believe that you can change the mind of anyone on FR by insulting and accusing those of us on the right by using the same exact same tactics that the gop/e has so angered the base with? Do you think that you can convince anyone that you are correct by denigrating and accusing those on the right with some clandestine or misguided plan to reelect obama?

I despise romney ALMOST as much as I do obama. I have seen nothing in the man in the last three weeks that would change my mind... in fact... all that I see are actions and words... or refusal to make even a comment on a controversial subject... that backup my fear and loathing of the man and the gop/e. mitch mcconnell said yesterday that he didn't think that the gop could ever repeal obamacare! Have you EVER heard any dim leader say anything like that? Have you ever heard any dim leader speak to reaching across the aisle and compromising their ideology or political agenda? Even one single time?

While you are talking to that beautiful animal of yours... discuss these things with him also. Maybe he can help you to understand.

LLS

[altura]

LLS, Did I insult you? I did not mean to. I simply expressed my growing disgust and impatience with the constant Romney bashing on this forum when we should all be putting aside everything else to try and get rid of Obama.

And even my Bubba knows that the only way to do that is to elect Romney.

I’m not going to argue with you people any more. If you honestly think Romney is no better than Obama than stay home and elect Obama.

I won’t be doing that.

[rogue yam]

If you honestly think Romney is no better than Obama than stay home and elect Obama.

The are campaigning for Obama.

Right here, right now.

End of story.

[LibLieSlayer]

You didn't insult me Altura and I in no way meant to insult you. I just want you and others to think about what you say to whom and how it is that you say it.

I promise that will not stay home on Election Day. I will vote for every Conservative on my ballot.

“You people” is a phrase that you should reconsider... it is as if we are inferior and somehow marked as lepers. We are simply Conservatives that have been fed the lie... have seen the promises broken for decades and no longer believe their lies... those are the lies that you still believe in.

I no longer believe in the republican party as a force for good and I certainly do not believe a thing that romney says. A man that pretends to be one thing while his actions and words... both past and present... point to evidence that contradicts everything that he says he is and that he stands for today... and this is the last person you should willingly give your trust to. You may have to vote for him but to believe anything that he says or to depend upon his promises... is a sure fire way to failure and disappointment.

LLS