I routinely watch the "spinners" on television who call themselves journalists. Broadcast "journalism" these days is nothing more than advocacy journalism that lacks objectivity and is therefore biased.
Such individuals who fit this description are not highly principled nor completely truthful. Their loyalty does not lie with the viewer and thus they can easily distort the accuracy and truthfulness of a report.
I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat and as I watched Mitt Romney explain his immediate position on the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act, I clearly heard his own words. He said that while he agreed with the dissent that the mandate clause is a penalty, the Supreme Court as a majority of the whole ruled the mandate clause is a tax.
The American people have to accept it as described as long as the law stands; only Congress can change that.
The mandate provision of this federal law can be administered under the federal tax code, having nothing to do with how individual states, like Massachusetts, administer such a mandate under their own non-conflicting codes. The federal government may differ from what and how the states can carry out legislation.
Who cannot understand this context?
The American people are a lot more savvy than the spinners think.
JANET DERBY
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