Tax Confusion — Focus Groups
Romney: The Supreme Court has the final word. And their final word is that Obamacare is a tax. So it’s a tax. …
Crawford: Have you changed your views on this? Do you now believe that it is a tax at the federal level—that the Supreme Court has said it’s a tax, so it is a tax?
Romney: Well, I said that I agreed with the dissent, and the dissent made it very clear that they felt it was unconstitutional. But the dissent lost. It’s in the minority. And so now the Supreme Court has spoken.
CNN: The Supreme Court is the final word, right? Isn’t that the highest court in the land? And they said it was a tax, didn’t they? So it’s a tax, of course.”
Moral vs. legal distinction
