| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - When asked whether the penalty attached to the individual mandate was a tax, President Obama said it was ???absolutely not a tax.??? He also said ???[n]obody considers [it] a tax increase.??? Nevertheless, in an attempt to prevent the court from ruling on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, the Obama Justice Department argued that the penalty was in fact a tax.
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