Delusional Obamaphile Hill Reporter: Health law mandate isn’t ‘largest tax,’ despite GOP claims

Health law mandate isn’t ‘largest tax,’ despite GOP claims

To hear Republicans tell it, the individual mandate to buy health insurance that the Supreme Court has now declared to be a tax is the “largest tax in America’s history.”

Yet even when considered as a revenue-raising tax, the mandate at the center of President Obama's signature legislation is not even the largest tax increase in the 2010 healthcare law, much less in the history of the republic....