[kevkrom]

Jay Cost, you are insane.

This decision says that the government can compel you to do anything, as long as it makes the penalty for non-compliance a tax.

There is no victory here, no silver lining. The court has affirmed what they began with in Kelo -- to remind us that we are nothing but serfs who don't actually own property but must do whatever the government orders us to do.

[Navy Patriot]

This decision says that the government can compel you to do anything, as long as it makes the penalty for non-compliance a tax.

True, but worse yet, it says the government can lie about it being a tax in the written law, say it's not, and because it could be a tax, it's OK.

Social Security was at least honest in the written law, SS was a TAX paid to the government. True, it was publicized as a retirement contract, but there was no lie in the actual law.

Here Roberts requires citizens to purchase a product from a private business or go to prison.