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Why would the IRS penalize you if it is not a tax?
According to Romney, it is a Tax Penalty...
"Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others."
Sort of like tobacco tax, which affects only those who purchase tobacco but not others who don't. In this case, Romney's idea is to discourage "free riders".
Lawyers argue inconsistent arguments in order to get to the main objective. It's the see what sticks tactic that EVERY trial counsel uses. It's hardly unheard of and is instead ordinary procedure. You just never heard of it because you don't know any lawyers.
Both are absolutely a tax and both candidates have to tread carefully. In particular, Obama and the Democrats are in more trouble since they passed this law during a major recession and repeatedly and painfully went on TV and elsewhere insisting that the middle class would not see their taxes go up from this healthcare bill or any other legislation from the Democrats.
Romney has to highlight all of the other taxes in the bill (aside from the mandate) and show how those are very different than his legislation, including the gutting of half a trillion from Medicare done in the ACA. It won't be easy, but much of the burden will fall on the incumbent anyways.
Instead, on the matter of taxes, the Democrats have now passed a fairly regressive tax on most middle and low income Americans, something they attack Republicans of doing.
Both are absolutely a tax and both candidates have to tread carefully. In particular, Obama and the Democrats are in more trouble since they passed this law during a major recession and repeatedly and painfully went on TV and elsewhere insisting that the middle class would not see their taxes go up from this healthcare bill or any other legislation from the Democrats.
Romney has to highlight all of the other taxes in the bill (aside from the mandate) and show how those are very different than his legislation, including the gutting of half a trillion from Medicare done in the ACA. It won't be easy, but much of the burden will fall on the incumbent anyways.
Instead, on the matter of taxes, the Democrats have now passed a fairly regressive tax on most middle and low income Americans, something they attack Republicans of doing.
Plus - as far as his ideas for ObamaCare, he didn't necessarily say he was for a national mandate (obviously it could be inferred that he was for it, but he never explicitly said he was). He merely explained how it worked in MA.
Both Romney and Obama have their own reasons for not wanting people to see it as a tax. Political reasons obviously.
Of course. That being said, the Supreme Court of the US has ruled the penalty in ObamaCare a tax. No court has ruled the penalty in RomneyCare a tax.
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