[Bratch]

What, in your opinion, was "rewritten" from the bench?

Congress did not vote to pass a tax bill.

If it had been considered a tax bill, it's doubtful it would have ever made it out of committee. It certainly would never had been passed. And the courts would have refused to hear the case until the taxes began being applied.

He re-wrote the bill.

[philman_36]

Congress did not vote to pass a tax bill.
That's funny! What kind of bill did they pass then?

If it had been considered a tax bill, it's doubtful it would have ever made it out of committee.
Yet there is example after example of taxes being levied in several places in the bill and many of them were noted.
Here is an article from www.washingtontimes.com from 2009...
EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s tax hikes

The bill does contain new taxes — plenty of them. Pages 167 and 168 impose an income tax of 2.5 percent on any individual who chooses not to buy government-approved health insurance. Pages 149-150 impose a tax of between 2 percent and 8 percent on the payrolls of all companies whose payrolls exceed $250,000. Pages 197 and 198 outline income tax surcharges to be imposed on individuals with incomes over $350,000, rising to a highest surcharge of 5.4 percent.
I've got plenty of other examples, some even from the websites of our legislators where they knew the bill imposed new taxes if you would like to see them.

Not reading the bill is biting some in the backside now.
Simply raging against the machine isn't an effective debate technique.

Telling me that that particular Democrat majority Congress didn't know exactly what they were doing is BS!