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: Obamacares tax hikes
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!
The Chief Justice seems to want to be able to have it both ways. I disagree.
Either it's not a tax bill, and
- the courts can rule on the case,Otherwise, it's a tax bill, which means the courts have no standing yet to consider the case.- it's unconstitutional because the mandate can't be justified by the Commerce Clause.
Confusing, ain't it?