If in fact it’s a tax, and the bill originated in the Senate, then it’s unconstitutional.
Exactly!
ACA is a tax - therefore it is a nullity.
“If in fact it’s a tax, and the bill originated in the Senate, then it’s unconstitutional.”
This is the black-and-white correct conclusion and at the time of the USSC decision I could not understand why this wasn’t offered as the straightforward reason why the bill had no legitimacy. It should simply have been erased just as if I had created my own bill raising my salary by 500 percent with annual cost-of-living increases of 100 percent. The ACA originated outside of Constitutionally-prescribed location just as does the “iacovatx pay fairness” bill.