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The Denver Post tries to bring some sense to our political discourse about the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. A snippet:
Yet in a move that puts him in accord with other Republicans, Romney on Wednesday repudiated statements made by his staff just two days earlier that maintained he still believed the mandate was a penalty, not a tax.
“The majority of the court said it is a tax, therefore it is a tax. The majority has spoken,” Romney said. “There is no way around that.” (See note below.)
Oh, please. Does Romney accept as gospel everything else the court says? Look, there are many politically important issues to debate regarding the Affordable Care Act, but the question of whether the individual mandate is a tax or a penalty is not one of them. The question is of interest to constitutional scholars, of course, but in practical terms it makes no difference in how the act affects individual Americans.
They are certainly correct.
And unlikely to be noticed. Truth is irrelevant to propaganda.
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Note below:
The Supreme Court also once said that all black people were slaves for life and could never be freed.