[Campion]

This ought to be unconstitutional.

I mean, think about it ... what's next:

• A surtax of $15,000/year because you belong to the wrong political party?
• An excise of $10,000/year for belonging to the wrong religion?
• A surtax of $2,500/year levied only on people of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant heritage?
• An excise tax of $500/year on each female of child-bearing age who didn't have an abortion during the preceding year?

The Federal Government compelling -- not merely encouraging or rewarding, but compelling -- certain private behavior choices by means of punitive taxation is something the Founders never would have anticipated, or tolerated if they had.

[Man50D]

This ought to be unconstitutional.

All these socialist bills are unconstitutional. We would not be bound by them even if they were to pass but in the meantime I suggest you look at reply #9.

[SamInTheSouth]

In my opinion, this would be unconstitutional. There is nothing in the Constitution giving the Federal government the power to mandate any of us to have health insurance. Someone has to sue, though, to get it overturned.