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July 5, 2012

Romney: Healthcare Mandate Constitutes a Tax 
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears to have shifted
his stance on Obama's landmark healthcare law, echoing party members by
calling the mandate requiring people to buy health insurance a "tax."
Romney's remarks come days after his top spokesperson said Romney does
not believe the mandate is a tax. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the
individual mandate at the core of Obama's healthcare law last week on
the grounds of it being a tax. Romney enacted a nearly identical mandate
when he was governor of Massachusetts.

 

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