"The chief justice in his opinion made it very clear that at the state level, states have the power to put in place mandates. And as a result, Massachusetts’s mandate was a mandate, was a penalty, was described that way by the legislature and by me, and so it stays as it was."
—
Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, explaining why the penalty in Massachusetts mandated by his version of universal health care was not a tax — thus contradicting his own chief adviser for the second time this campaign.
Yeah, Mitt. Stick to that story about Romneycare: “It’s not a tax because we didn’t call it a tax. And neither did John Roberts… five years later.”
(via the New York Times)
(Source: inothernews)
