Justice Department Defends Health Insurance Mandate As A Tax

In a complete complete turn around from the Obama Adminstrations and the President himself claims that they will not raise taxes on middle class Americans, we now find out that the biggest program passed and signed by the President is indeed a tax.  

Lawyers for the Department of Justice are defending the health care reform provision that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance as a tax.

Justice Officials admitt in a brief that the mandate to purchase health insurance is part of the Government's "Power To Lay And Collect Taxes." 

This, critics say, is a departure from the arguments Democrats and the Obama administration made as they were working to pass the health care reforms.

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