[Jedidah]

So . . . .

if the mandate is upheld as a tax,

and

if Congress can impose taxes,

does that mean that a simple vote repealing the tax would kill Obamacare?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Congress can now apparently pass taxes while never having to admit they are taxes but the courts will uphold them anyway. A real Pandora’s Box was opened here.

[Lorianne]

I think how they slipped around that is ... the mandate is not a tax, but the PENALTY if you don’t follow the mandate is a tax.

Extremely shaky reasoning IMO. If you follow this logic, then legal penalties of any sort are a ‘tax’. So taxes are penalties ... penalties for making a certain amount of money.