mandate is a tax or penalty and so on. the u.s. supreme court says it's a tax, government still maintains it's not. but some republicans argue this is not the point, that the taxes from the individual mandate, what have you, are only a small part of the federal law which raises a trillion dollars' worth of taxes over the first ten years separate and apart from the mandate, and then more after that. our chief national correspondent jim angle taking a closer look at this live in washington. >> reporter: that's right. after all, the argument over whether the president's individual mandate is a tax or not, some democrats are now trying to put it on romney. >> let's get down to the bottom line here. mitt romney is the obamacare daddy. he gave birth to this baby up in massachusetts, and now he doesn't recognize it and can't pick out any strengths in the hereditary chain there that look like anything that he did in massachusetts. >> reporter: analysts, however, say there are huge differences between obamacare and romneycare, the biggest of which is that the president had