Now here is the best analysis I have seen from
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/06/28/obamacare-ruling-pure-fraud-and-no-due-process/
“Yet this is essentially what Chief Justice Roberts & Co. did. They said the American people are not entitled to an honest legislative process, one in which they can safely assume that when Congress intentionally uses words that have very different meanings and consequences — like tax and penalty — and when Congress adamantly insists that the foundation of legislation is one and not the other, the Court will honor, rather than rewrite, the legislative process. Meaning: if Congress was wrong, the resulting law will be struck down, and Congress will be told that, if it wants to pass the law, it has to do it honestly.
Just as an appeals court may not legitimately rewrite an indictment and revise what happened at a trial, neither may it legitimately rewrite a statute and fabricate an imaginary congressional record. But today, the Supreme Court rewrote a law — which it has no constitutional authority to do — and treated it as if it were forthrightly, legitimately enacted. Further, it shielded the political branches from accountability for raising taxes, knowing full well that, had Obama and the Democrats leveled with the public that ObamaCare entailed a huge tax hike, it would never have had the votes to pass.”
It agrees with Roberts that it is a tax but should NOT have passed muster
I might add even now Obama is insisting it is not a tax
He got his law but not the way he wanted
Are you being obtuse on purpose? Or are you thick and simply cannot help it? It has to be one of those two.
The mandate is “in effect” a tax and the whole bill is full of taxes - but it is up to the folks who PASS THE BILL and not those who OPPOSE THE BILL to define what it is. Moreover, it is NOT UP TO THE JUSTICE to define it in a way that allows it to pass muster.
In addition, what the GOP lawmakers called it in their fight to stop it doesn’t have a damned thing to do with the Constitutional question.
Quit being so thick.