[Tublecane]

“’Roberts has just parsed the language and created something that didn’t exist: a tax.’

‘NOT!

The arguments were presented to SCOTUS as follows:
...3 - find for it as a tax - AGREED’”

Just because it was argued before the court to be a tax does not mean it was one. The law as written clearly makes it a penalty. From the time it was proposed to this morning Dems denied it was a tax. It is not a tax.

[mmichaels1970]

Just because it was argued before the court to be a tax does not mean it was one. The law as written clearly makes it a penalty. From the time it was proposed to this morning Dems denied it was a tax. It is not a tax.

I agree. They needed it to be a penalty to pass the Congress, so it was a penalty. They needed it to be a tax to pass the courts, so it became a tax. They need it to NOT be a tax to get reelected. Rest assured, the commies and MSM will be in full-scale "it's not really a tax" mode by tomorrow at the latest.

Damage control will begin no later than Sunday morning as they begin to spin this back into a penalty. They will mention that the term "tax" here was only applied in a very technical, legal sense, but that in a practical sense, there is no such tax. And many will buy into it and actively promote it.

In short, to advance communism, it is whatever they want it to be, whenever they want it to be.