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On the recordJuly 4, 2012
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, if that's what they say it is.
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Mitt Romney
Republican · Utah

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Romney acknowledges the Supreme Court's ruling that the mandate is a tax.

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