I understand your frustrations. But if such a situation occurs and somehow this law stands and the penalty becomes just another tax then you WILL pay. You would lose to the IRS and they WILL win. They have unlimited resources.
Now that it is out in the open that this is a tax we wiLl bludgeon the other side with it. Americans like handouts unfortunately but they don’t like taxes that they personally have to pay. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Are we so easily coerced in this land of sheep. We may be reaching the time when as Henry David Thoreau put it the only place for an honest man is in jail.