Romney, Romney, Romney. . .
Romney or Obama - whom should I vote for?
A couple of very dangerous Class A clowns.
I don’t think they need 15000 IRS goons to collect a penalty.
Need to drag this idiot over the finish line, stick pen in his hand, get rid of Obamacare. Then impeach him.
Here’s the problem, it doesn’t matter whether it is a tax or a penalty, both are flat dead wrong.
But Romney believes in the penalty, he believes in an Individual Mandate and he will replace Obamacare with something that has an Individual Mandate.
And yet we have so called conservatives here on FreeRepublic backing Romney on his “Repeal and Replace” nonsense when HE HAS NEVER GONE BACK ON HIS INDIVIDUAL MANDATE.
Opinion of the moment as relayed by a functionary. Somewhere between a sticky note and an etch a sketch for authority.
I've heard this drivel from liberals all day as somehow hurting Romney. Can anyone explain why?
To defend Romney for a brief moment, the media is running with the statement that Romney backs Scalia’s desent. He is backing our views.
To defend Romney for a brief moment, the media is running with the statement that Romney backs Scalia’s desent. He is backing our views.
It’s a penalty if you are referring to the view of the conservatives on the Supreme Court. It’s a tax if you are referring to the ruling of the Supreme Court (and therefore the law).
Romney can call it a donut if he likes. What counts is his commitment to repeal Obamacare if he becomes President.
No, it's an abomination.
Romney has all the political instincts of a flea.
As much as I detested the SCOTUS decision I will for now stand with his decision due mostly because of the intense irritation it is causing Obama.
Romney needs to get something straight, the people can if pushed be motivated to write in someone else, even at the obvious risk of handing the election to Obama.
At least Obama is universally hated, he can never get his supporters back in line, he will never have his hypnotized idolizers at his feet anymore, if elected Obama won’t last 6 months I project, he will be impeached.
I would rather take a chance of losing to Obama knowing actions are in effect to remove him quickly that vote or support Romney.
If the state can tax you, and jail you for non-payment, for merely existing, then we are no longer a free people but slaves of the state.
That John Roberts does not see that is an indictment of how far away from the constitution he has moved.
It’s everything; a mandate, a tax, a ransom, extortion and an attack on our personal liberty.
Mitt Romney: For use when lying and looting just aren’t quite enough to bring conservatives into the fold.
This makes me glad that I am NOT voting this time around....
Romney is right, it is a penalty. It is not a tax. I’m sorry to see Allen West and scores of other Conservatives calling it a tax just to score political points for the coming election. I understand their motivation, but the fact of the matter is that if I buy a kitten and call it a cow, it doesn’t make it bovine.
The penalty in Obamacare is certainly not a tax. Roberts just made that up, knowing there is no higher court in the land to which we can appeal the ruling. The Chief Justice of the nations highest court can just pull stuff out of his ass, knowing that he gets the last word. If he says the sky is blue instead of purple, then the color we all see as blue is sudden labelled purple.
I have nothing but contempt and scorn for Benedict Roberts.
The problem here is that semantically, Romney is correct. And Justice Kennedy’s dissenting opinion makes a strong and compelling case that he’s correct legally, too.
However, the Roberts majority opinion says it’s a tax, at least as a matter of Constitutional law. And since that’s the only reason the law stands, the mandate must not be treated as anything other that a tax for political purposes, too.
I suggest we conservatives forever refer to this case ‘Roberts vs. The Constitution.’ He wanted a legacy. We’ll give him one.
So romney wants to kill babies too?