WOLFEBORO, N.H. — Mitt Romney on Wednesday said President Obama’s individual mandate in his signature health care law is “a tax,” reversing a position staked by his campaign two days earlier.
The “majority of the court said it’s a tax, and therefore it is a tax,” he said in the interview with CBS News. “They have spoken. There’s no way around that. You can try and say you wished they had decided a different way, but they didn’t. They concluded it was a tax. That’s what it is.”
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Wow. This is shoddy journalism if I ever saw it. I've heard Mitt Romney refer to this several times in the past as a tax. For example, watch his interview at a business school in Massachusetts in 2010. Anybody interested in the similarities and differences in MA healthcare and ObamaCare should watch this 45-minute interview in its entirety.