The problem with all these rationales is that Roberts could have accomplished all of the same things by siding with the dissenters and writing his opinion. Instead, he went through convoluted reasoning to call that which wasn’t a tax, a tax. The Supreme Court now has precedent to call any requirement of the law a “tax”.
Exactly. Roberts went out of his way to save this Frankenstein monster.
To support Roberts, you have to negate Scalia, Alito, Thomas and (unbelievably) Kennedy.