VIDEO : Second Super Gaffe of Eric Fehrnstrom, Senior Communications Advisor to Mitt Romney, Eric Fehrnstrom's statement that individual mandates are penalties, not taxes, undercuts a key Republican talking point since the Obamacare ruling.

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GOP says that the ObamaCare Mandate is a Tax ( a demagogic campaign line ! ).

But Eric says that it is not a tax, agreeing with President Obama, Antonin Scalia and conservatives in the U. S. Supreme Court. And he says that Romney does not think that the mandate is a tax.

Eric Fehrnstrom was the guy that created the "Etch A Sketch" Super Gaffe and now Eric's statement that individual mandates are penalties, not taxes, undercuts a key Republican talking point

MSNBC's Chuck Todd and Eric Fehrnstrom :

Todd: The governor does not believe the mandate is a tax? That is what you're saying.

Fehrnstrom: The governor believes that what we put in place in Massachusetts was a penalty and he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. But again...

Todd: But he agrees with the president that it is not -- and he believes that you shouldn't call the tax penalty a tax, you should call it a penalty or a fee or a fine?

Fehrnstrom: That's correct.

The Atlantic
Video of the Day: Top Romney Aide Says Mandate Is Not a Tax
By David A. Graham 

July 2, 2012



Video of the Day: Top Romney Aide Says Mandate Is Not a Tax


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