Forcing citizens to buy a product they simply didn't want or suffer a tax penalty is un-American.
Jason Smith: “Forcing citizens to buy a product they simply didn't want or suffer a tax penalty is un-American.”
On the recordJanuary 23, 2017
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Smith criticizes the individual mandate of ObamaCare as coercive and un-American.
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