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Romney breaks with GOP, says mandate is a penalty, not a tax
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jul 02, 2012 05:28pm |
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| Author | Jonathan Easley |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 3, 2012 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mitt Romney's presidential campaign broke with congressional Republicans on Monday by arguing that the individual mandate upheld by the Supreme Court last week is a penalty, not a tax.
The majority in the court's decision ruled it constitutional because it was a tax, and Republicans in Congress since that decision have hit the White House hard for raising taxes through the new law.
But a spokesman for Romney on Monday said the former Massachusetts governor agrees with Obama that the individual mandate is a penalty or a fine, rather than a tax.
In a roundabout exchange on MSNBC’s "Daily Rundown" on Monday, Eric Fehrnstrom was asked if he agrees with Obama that the individual mandate is not a tax.
“That’s correct,” Fehrnstrom said. “But the president also needs to be held accountable for his contradictory statements. He has described it variously as a penalty and as a tax. He needs to reconcile those two very different statements." |
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