President Obama, distraught over recent Supreme Court oral arguments which do not appear to bode well for his health-care plan, gathered his inner circle. Inspired by Shakespeares tragedy Hamlet, he recited a tormented health-care soliloquy:
A tax or not a tax, that is the question.
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