Problem is Alito, Kennedy, and Scalia are on their side too. They wrote in the dissent that it’s not a tax.
That’s because they are correct. The only constitutional ruling would have been to call it a mandate and declare it unconstitutional. Calling it a tax is not to our long term advantage and it’s not honest.
Yours is the correct answer.
WTF Roberts did will always be a mystery.
Why he did it will be a mystery.
The whole thing should have been tossed in the trash.
Perhaps he knows something we don’t or perhaps he is crazy as a loon.
Indeed they are.