[philman_36]

If not then please be more clear or maybe just drop it.
That particular Congress knew exactly what it was doing.
It set the mandate up as a tax. It intended the "penalty" to be a tax as well and the debate indicates such.

I didn't think it was that hard to grok.

[free me]

“It set the mandate up as a tax. It intended the “penalty” to be a tax as well and the debate indicates such.”
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Oh. I agree with the dissent that they did no such thing. It doesn’t matter what they debated, it matters what the law they wrote says.