Romney Disagrees With GOP On: Obamacare Penalty v Tax

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Romney Disagrees With GOP On: Obamacare Penalty v Tax

Romney has "consistently described the mandate as a penalty."

you can't make this shit up :rofl:

"The American people … do not want the government telling them what kind of insurance policy they have to buy, and how much they have to pay for it, and if you don't like it, we're going to tax you," House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

“[The court] was more honest than he was, and said Obamacare is a huge tax increase on middle-class families across America," Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana said on a conference call organized by the Republican National Committee on Friday.

"In 2008, Candidate Obama promised middle-class American families that they wouldn't see their taxes go up under his administration, yet his signature legislation did just that," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.

Romney agrees with Obama: Healthcare mandate not a tax [video] - latimes.com
 
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Today that is his position. Just wait, it'll change.

Romney disagrees with Obama and agrees with Obama? How can that be? Did Chief Justice Roberts brainwash Romney?

Is Romney the brainwashed candidate like his pa was back in the 1968 Presidential campaign?

George W. Romney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Romney stated: "When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get."

Questions were occasionally asked about Romney's eligibility to run for President owing to his birth in Mexico, given the ambiguity in the United States Constitution over the phrase "natural-born citizen".


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LOL this is great, I guess this is what the etch-a-sketch told him to say today.
 
LOL this is great, I guess this is what the etch-a-sketch told him to say today.

We even have USMB House Imbecile, Quantum Windbag, writing "First, the conservative mandate was quite a bit different than the Obama mandate."

Wanna bet the Heritage Foundations mandate, the Romneycare mandate, and the Obamacare mandate have more in common than they don't?


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"The Supreme Court left President Obama with two choices: the federal individual mandate in Obamacare is either a constitutional tax or an unconstitutional penalty. Governor Romney thinks it is an unconstitutional penalty. What is President Obama’s position: is his federal mandate unconstitutional or is it a tax?"
 
"The Supreme Court left President Obama with two choices: the federal individual mandate in Obamacare is either a constitutional tax or an unconstitutional penalty. Governor Romney thinks it is an unconstitutional penalty. What is President Obama’s position: is his federal mandate unconstitutional or is it a tax?"
Political campaign statement(s).

In the mandate, the shared responsibility payment required of people who choose not to purchase health insurance, was never ruled unConstitutional. That's just spin. The penalty was ruled a tax by another name. The Penalty v Tax argument is bogus.

I need to apologize to you. I had thought you had poor critical thinking skills. Now I know you had none. :redface:


Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg reinforced this point to ABC News after Fehrnstrom’s MSNBC appearance: “The Supreme Court left President Obama with two choices: the federal individual mandate in Obamacare is either a constitutional tax or an unconstitutional penalty. Governor Romney thinks it is an unconstitutional penalty. What is President Obama’s position: is his federal mandate unconstitutional, or is it a tax?”

Romney vs. ObamaTax | Conservative News, Views & Books
 
SC ruled the penalty unconstitutional under the commerce clause but constitutional via tax.


The court ruled 5 to 4, wiith Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the majority, that the mandate is unconstitutional under the Constitution's commerce clause, but it can stay as part of Congress's power under a taxing clause. The court said that the government will be allowed to tax people for not having health insurance.

"The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the ruling. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS...ealth-care-law/story?id=16663839#.T_IPy3o_kbQ



So, which is it? Unconstitutional penalty or constitutional tax?
 
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SC ruled the penalty unconstitutional under the commerce clause but constitutional via tax.


The court ruled 5 to 4, wiith Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the majority, that the mandate is unconstitutional under the Constitution's commerce clause, but it can stay as part of Congress's power under a taxing clause. The court said that the government will be allowed to tax people for not having health insurance.

"The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the ruling. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness."

Supreme Court Health Care Ruling: The Mandate Can Stay - ABC News



So, which is it? Unconstitutional penalty or constitutional tax?

The mandate was ruled unConstitutional under the Commerce Clause. The mandate is Constitutional under the taxing powers of Congress.

The shared responsibility payment which is called a penalty in the text of the law, was NOT ruled unconstitutional. The shared responsibility payment was ruled constitutional as a tax. '

Calling a penalty a tax doesn't make it so.

U B dumb as shit
 
the reps nominated a turd that dropped from an elephants rear end. we get what we deserve.
 
Romney Disagrees With GOP On: Obamacare Penalty v Tax

Romney has "consistently described the mandate as a penalty."

you can't make this shit up :rofl:

"The American people … do not want the government telling them what kind of insurance policy they have to buy, and how much they have to pay for it, and if you don't like it, we're going to tax you," House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

“[The court] was more honest than he was, and said Obamacare is a huge tax increase on middle-class families across America," Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana said on a conference call organized by the Republican National Committee on Friday.

"In 2008, Candidate Obama promised middle-class American families that they wouldn't see their taxes go up under his administration, yet his signature legislation did just that," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.

Romney agrees with Obama: Healthcare mandate not a tax [video] - latimes.com
Yeah, dumbass and Obama claimed it wasn't a tax either but the SCOTUS has set them both straight.
 
Romney Disagrees With GOP On: Obamacare Penalty v Tax

Romney has "consistently described the mandate as a penalty."

you can't make this shit up :rofl:

"The American people … do not want the government telling them what kind of insurance policy they have to buy, and how much they have to pay for it, and if you don't like it, we're going to tax you," House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

“[The court] was more honest than he was, and said Obamacare is a huge tax increase on middle-class families across America," Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana said on a conference call organized by the Republican National Committee on Friday.

"In 2008, Candidate Obama promised middle-class American families that they wouldn't see their taxes go up under his administration, yet his signature legislation did just that," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.

Romney agrees with Obama: Healthcare mandate not a tax [video] - latimes.com
Yeah, dumbass and Obama claimed it wasn't a tax either but the SCOTUS has set them both straight.

Do you imagine in your delusion that Dante gives two shits about what President Obama thinks about calling or even calls the shared responsibility payment?

The President's Solicitor General in one of his two theories before the Court, argued to the Court that the payment should be viewed as a tax.

So Obama called the payment a tax. :badgrin:
 
Romney Disagrees With GOP On: Obamacare Penalty v Tax

Romney has "consistently described the mandate as a penalty."

you can't make this shit up :rofl:
Yeah, dumbass and Obama claimed it wasn't a tax either but the SCOTUS has set them both straight.

Do you imagine in your delusion that Dante gives two shits about what President Obama thinks about calling or even calls the shared responsibility payment?

The President's Solicitor General in one of his two theories before the Court, argued to the Court that the payment should be viewed as a tax.

So Obama called the payment a tax. :badgrin:

Nope

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ZUBMqMnWs]President Obama in 2009: Mandate is Not a Tax - YouTube[/ame]
 
Boy, they think they've hit on somethig BIG here..

anything to take the heat off Obama
 

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