Romney's ObamaCare Gaffe Could Cost Him the Election

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Not only did Romney's top adviser say it wasn't a tax, he said Romney didn't consider it to be a tax. Unfortunately, the Anybody But Obama Club has to take everything Obama does and turn it into the worst thing anybody ever did. Romney does his best to keep up with the GOP agenda of hate... necessitating his change of position. Thus today... Romney refers to it as a tax.

Certainly one of the dumbest arguments ever is that it doesn't matter what this is called. Um, let's try to clear that up: If it's not a tax, then it's unconstitutional.  Period.  End of sentence. That might be one reason it matters. On the con-job front, if this had been sold to the American people as a tax, originally, the law wouldn't have passed, so this trillion dollar bill was sold as a deception. On the con-job front -- Part II -- Obama and the Democrats sold this thing for YEARS as not-a-tax in every venue, speech and interview, then turned around and sent the Solicitor General in to the Supreme Court to argue that it was a tax. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  “Not only is it fair to read this an exercise of the tax power, but this court has got an obligation to construe it as an exercise of the the tax power, if it can be upheld on that basis.”           --Donald Verrilli Jr, Solicitor General, 3/27/12

I believe, as the reality (vs the fear mongering) of the health care law provisions come more into effect over the next two years even more people will come to support it. As it helps more people, small businesses, and communities directly and indirectly.  Seriously, How many of you Anti-Obama/Anti-Affordable Health Care Act ranters out there are going to REFUSE to put your children ages 18 - 26 on your Insurance at a reduced rate (as the act now allows) vs making them pay rates double and triple as an individual (as the insurance companies would have it)? Show of hands please. How many of you with pre-existing conditions in yourself or family members are going to refuse to switch to a better plan or refuse NEW insurance at a new job because you are more concerned about overburdening the Insurance companies and their profit margins with the cost of the treatment of your condition than you are about the financial and medical well being of your family?How many of you are going to put back in place caps on treatment when it is YOUR premature baby, cancer ridden mother, or yourself, that reaches the insurance companies treatment cap and then has to make the choice either to discontinue treatments or bankrupt your family to keep a family member alive? This is like refusing to support the taxes for police because you have an alarm system or a guard dog or refusing to support the fire department because YOUR house has a fire suppression system. Living in a civilized society means that you address the needs of the whole society. What kind of moral standard bearer for the world are we when we let the most vulnerable in our country live or die on the profit margins of insurance companies and health care corporations?