it’s now clear that his mandate as described

by Shulan Xiao autoboss scanner   Not only did he raise the $500 billion that was already in the bill, it’s now clear that his mandate as described by the Supreme Court is a tax.”
If Romney stopped there, this would just be a flip flop. But what Romney actually did was far more artful. He continued to argue that the identical mandate he supported on the state level was not a tax, because bmw x5 radio pixel repair  the Supreme Court did not call it a tax. Furthermore, his campaign argued that Fehrnstrom on Monday and Romney on Wednesday were in agreement. Here is more from Romney:
Actually the chief justice in his opinion made it very clear that at the state level, states have the power to put in place mandates. They don’t need to require them to be called taxes in order for them to be constitutional. And as a result, Massachusetts’ mandate was a mandate, was a penalty, was described that way by the legislature and by me, and so it stays as it was.
In other words, a duck is a duck unless it’s a goose because the Supreme Court has not weighed in on whether it is a duck or not. The Supreme Court won’t be weighing in on whether Romney’s logic passes muster, but it’s hard to imagine that Chief Justice John Roberts would agree.
There are two questions at play here: Is an  car air pump individual mandate allowed? And is it a tax? On the first question, the Supreme Court said it was allowed, on both the state and federal level, for different reasons. (On the state level it is allowed, because state s have broad powers to do stuff like that, and on the federal level it is allowed because of the federal taxing power.)
On the second question, the Supreme Court said the federal mandate was a tax, and was silent on whether the identical state mandate was a tax. (Both the state and the federal mandates penalize people of means who choose not to get health insurance through the tax code.) Romney interprets this to mean that the state mandate is not a tax, allowing him to deny that he ever raised taxes in Massachusetts, while at the same time arguing that Obama raised.

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