On Sunday, President Obama insisted that forcing people to buy health insurance and issuing heavy fines on those who don’t is not a tax increase. But what does the actual Baucus bill call it? What does the president risk by fighting this semantic battle? What else is taxed in the Baucus plan? And is a co-op really any different than the public option? We ask Ryan Ellis, director of tax policy at Americans for Tax Reform.
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