Mandate Not the Only Health Tax Republicans Backed

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July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Is the Affordable Care Act really“the largest tax increase in the history of the world,” as RushLimbaugh so grandiloquently put it? No. It’s not even thelargest tax increase in the history of this country.

Or of the past 50 years. Or 20. It’s not even the biggesttax increase scheduled to take effect in the very near future.(That’s the expiration of the George W. Bush tax cuts slated forNew Year’s Day.)