“The majority of the court said it’s a tax and therefore it is a tax. They have spoken. There’s no way around that. You can try and say you wish they had decided a different way but they didn’t. They concluded it was a tax.” — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, remarking on President Barack Obama’s requirement that all Americans buy health insurance.

Mr. Romney said it amounts to a tax, but argued that a similar initiative he started in Massachusetts was a penalty, not a tax.

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