Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski's decision to agree late Tuesday to smash Obamacare's individual mandate may remove one obstacle to passing the Senate Republican tax bill next week.
Murkowski hasn't yet endorsed the tax bill but had previously said she preferred not to mix it with health care, and she was one of three mavericks who killed the GOP's Obamacare repeal efforts earlier this year.
"I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy in order to avoid being taxed," she wrote in an op-ed in Alaska's Daily News-Miner newspaper posted online Tuesday night.
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