[jessduntno]

“Well since Roberts said it was legal as a TAX, then it was illegally made into law since all TAX bills must originate in the house.”

EXACTLY. And when someone with standing can challenge that tax, it should be heard again. All the “Roberts is a liberal” crowd doesn’t get this. He killed their power grab on commerce and boxed them in.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Harry Reid’s the one who took a Bill from the House then gutted it and replaced it with the 0bamacare text and changed the title.. Something like that.

[trackman]

I don’t think Roberts is “liberal”, but I also don’t buy into the idea that Roberts was purposely killing their power grab. This ruling that it was a tax is not a “poison pill” in the ruling. Why? Because he was the deciding vote. If he wanted to kill their power grab on the commerce clause, a better, much more expedient way to do it is just to vote with the other conservative justices and call it what is was...an abuse and extensive overreach of the commerce clause. Calling it a tax just so that it could later be shot down on a technicality makes no sense. It’s purely wishful thinking.

[nutmeg]

“Well since Roberts said it was legal as a TAX, then it was illegally made into law since all TAX bills must originate in the house.”

EXACTLY. And when someone with standing can challenge that tax, it should be heard again. All the “Roberts is a liberal” crowd doesn’t get this. He killed their power grab on commerce and boxed them in.

Thanks for some interesting posts, Mr. K and jessduntno.

Pinging a few FRiends here...

[PghBaldy]

When someone is actually taxed, that may be when there is standing.

[JIM O]

Since the court determined it is only legal as a tax how is it the Feds can impose a tax on tax exempt entities such as a college or church?