[VideoPaul]

Roberts said of the Obamacare that there are plenty of bad laws that are constitutional. It’s not SCOTUS’ job to strike down bad laws—that’s the legislature’s job. Obamacare was a bad law that is constitutional when couched as taxation.

Obama just refused to call it what it was—a massive tax.

[Cheerio]

Obama just refused to call it what it was—a massive tax.

I think the first halfrican's response to Steponallofus was much more positive than just refusing to call it a TAX.......Mandate is NOT a tax, says Obama

[Moonman62]

Roberts said of the Obamacare that there are plenty of bad laws that are constitutional. It’s not SCOTUS’ job to strike down bad laws—that’s the legislature’s job. Obamacare was a bad law that is constitutional when couched as taxation.

Obama just refused to call it what it was—a massive tax.

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I think Barry represented as a tax to the SCOTUS, but not to anyone else, and the corrupt press didn’t dare call it what it was.

[hinckley buzzard]

"You can call a tail a leg, but that doesn't make it one." --A. Lincoln

Shielding unconstitutional actions behind the Tax fig leaf has been a tactic at least since the New Deal. It is dishonest and unethical but widely understood in the shyster business.