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Already didnt like and made it sound worse. its also because people associate taxes as an automatic payment they make whether or not they use a service or whether or not they like whats going on. the reason why it matters when we talk about the difference, i think people who supported this which include both presidential candidates emphasize its a penalty because that means the vast majority of people will never pay it. i think that is the substance beneath this rhetorical debate. >> somewhere b...

Lets remember, this is one-sixth of the economy. this is a huge multistate economy. its not something trivial like the court is saying guns near schools may not have a basis so to say that implicates commerce. this does. i think its both the argument this is you making a choice by not making a choice. emergency room is not going to turn you away. everyone else is premiums get jacked up by $1,000. that loops back to your point which is why this is a conservative idea. its an anti-free rider idea ...

Hes going to tax you and me and the rich guys, all right? and all the debt will come down to a very manageable position and thats what he is telling the folks. >> down the road? in the sunny uplands of the future, down the road. and the first two years of his presidency, he says we cant cut anything. we have to spend like crazy because the economy is in bad shape and there is high unemployment. now he said, in fact, he said it yesterday in the speech he gave, the economy is strengthening, unempl...

White house, they dont want a rick perry. and even romney is going to be beholden to these far right people. i think obamas going to -- and obamas out there in the last three weeks looking great. i think hes going to solidify his base. >> romneys strategy has worked so far to set back and let the others -- >> romneys a great politician and seasoned at this point. >> a with cains popularity on the rise, he spent some time campaigning in new york city. and he made an appearance on "the view," and ...

Florida straw? greta: meanwhile while the attention is on the bad performance by governor perry and the surge by mr. herman cain it seems like one of the people that has avoided the noise is governor romney, but then todaywa y carney, white house press secretary embraced him on the idea of the mandate, and he saysñ3dúf(y,9@ zsn9ú >06hip b45 ]fd

The individual mandate makes sense as a matter of being the essential premise of health care. what do you make of that, steve? >> also news today that tim pawlenty three or four years ago was saying pretty much the same thing, he was open to the idea of the individual mandate. the history of that suggests the individual mandate was pretty much a conservative idea. as recently as 15 years ago in the united states congress, you had a fair number of republicans in the senate like bob dole, orrin ha...