Romney Calls Health-Care Mandate Tax Rather Than Penalty
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Republican Mitt Romney said that requiring Americans to obtain health insurance is a tax, breaking with previous descriptions of President Barack Obama’s mandate by his campaign and aligning with his party’s message.
“The fact that the majority of the court said it’s a tax and, therefore, it is a tax,” Romney said in an interview aired by CBS News today. “You can try and say you wish they had decided a different way, but they didn’t.”