Insofar as it’s a line item on your income tax form I can grudgingly accept the notion “it’s a tax”, comparable to the reprehensible “you owe $1000 unless you have a kid with a SS#”. The terminology doesn’t line up with the semantics, but the end practical result is the same: you’re taxed $X unless you can demonstrate a qualifying deduction, which is a long-accepted norm.
As you note, as such the free-flowing exemptions to supporters come to a screeching halt today - or it gets ugly for Barry.
Insofar as very few people won’t be able to claim the qualifying deduction, or won’t otherwise have other deductions reducing total tax to $0 (the infamous 47%), the number of people actually subject to the tax will be very small and very little money raised thereby (well, relative to the spending Barry alleges it will offset).
It was never the intent of the democraps to raise revenue. It has always been their agenda to collpase the insurance industry and establish ‘single payer’. It has always been the agenda of these same treacherous democrats to collapse the US economy so we the people are no longer sovereigns and The UNited States come under UN/global governance. Roberts has handed the treacherous bastards the means by which they can now herd US all via punative taxation ... unless we throw this sh!t out with extreme prejudice.