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Romney calls Obama's health care requirement a tax
Posted: Jul 4, 2012 11:15 PM
Updated: Jul 4, 2012 11:17 PM
WOLFEBORO, NH - Mitt Romney says the Supreme Court has decided that President Barack Obama's health care mandate is a tax, but he maintains that the high court has made clear it does not consider a Massachusetts health care mandate a tax.
The Republican presidential candidate told CBS News on Wednesday that the Supreme Court opinion makes clear that states have the power to put in place a mandate or a penalty and that it is constitutional.
The former Massachusetts governor said that the court's opinion said states have the power to pass such a penalty, but the federal government does not. And he said for the court to find Obama's plan constitutional they had to rule his mandate was a tax.
Therefore, Romney says: "Obamacare's a tax."
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