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Originally Posted by Boreas
Really? What's your source for that? In other words, where dies it say that one of the Administration arguments before the Court was that the Mandate is a tax? The fact that the SCOTUS held it to be a tax isn't necessarily an indication that it was an element of the Administration's case.
By the way, your link is 3 years old.
"Who's the liar" indeed!
John
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Today's NYT is the source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us...nted=2&_r=1&hp
"The Obama administration had said in court in 2010 that the mandate could be upheld under the taxation powers, which it called even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce. "
And that's why the link is 3 years old: Obama specifically denied in 2009 that that PPACA was a tax increase. Yet, during arguments in lower Federal courts and ultimately SCOTUS, the administration defended the PPACA and specifically the mandate under the Fed's power to levy taxes.
So, yes, someone lied. Indeed.