WASHINGTON (OfficialWire) — A top adviser says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn’t see the health care mandate as a tax but as a penalty or a fee or even a fine.
That’s a different view from Republicans who are condemning the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care law as a tax instead of a penalty, as Obama prefers to call it.
Senior Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told MSNBC on Monday that Romney thinks those without health coverage pay a penalty rather than a tax.
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Sounds like Romney is backpedaling.
Romney cannot call this law a tax, because that is what his healthcare was in Massachusetts. Its a health debt/akin to a tax that the Americans did not want. Its a financial obligation for health care, that no one wanted, and whose quality is so inferior that Obama and the whole Congress OPTED OUT OF!! WEll, if its not GOOD ENOUGH for Bobo, its not GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!!!