Mitt Romney is on record on numerous occasions as stating that he didn’t raise taxes to implement RomneyCare. The following quotes are from Fox News Sunday on March 7, 2010:

“Let me tell you, there's a big difference between what we did and what President Obama is doing. What we did, I think, is the ultimate conservative plan. We said people have to take responsibility for getting insurance, if they can afford it, or paying their own way. No more free- riders. And we solved this at the state level — not a federal plan, but a state plan.

This is a federalist nation. States should be able to solve their own problems. We didn't raise taxes.”

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“A big difference — a state plan versus a federal plan. No new taxes, unlike his plan.”

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“And again, I like the idea of letting states solve their problems one by one and find the best alternative. I think we're the first state in the — in the nation that found a way to get everybody insured without having to raise taxes.”

The “no tax” argument seems to come up whenever he’s questioned about his signature achievement. Forget the fact that Massachusetts has had to raise taxes in recent years to keep the program above water. As it turns out, the mandate is actually a tax. Don’t take my word for it--ask Obama:

From Examiner:

“After campaigning extensively on no tax increase for anyone making under $250,000 a year, then insisting the money paying for health care wouldn’t be paid for by a tax increase, it seems the president finally admits to lying. This came in the New York Times, on July 18, 2010, buried on page 18 in an article by Robert Pear, Changing Stance; Administration Now Defends Insurance mandate as a Tax.”

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“When the health care bill with a mandate to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty was passed, Democrats denied creating a new tax. Now that tax is being defended by Obama as “an exercises of the government’s power to lay and collect taxes.”

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“The Obama administration has to defend the requirement to purchase health insurance as a tax in court against a lawsuit filed by 20 states, including Colorado. In order for health care to avoid a lawsuit as an unconstitutional act, it must be called a tax. As a tax, the “penalty” uninsured Americans will have to pay cannot be challenged. And because it’s a tax, it’s been deemed constitutional by Jack M. Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School.”

Will Mitt Romney be pressed on the “no taxes” claims during the 2012 primary debates? You betcha!

http://www.examiner.com/x-53393-Fort-Collins-Republican-Examiner~y2010m7d20-Obama-Administation-Admits-Health-Care-Initiative-is-a-Tax

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588337,00.html