[slowhandluke]

Of interest, Republicans tried to do in courts what they could not do in Congress. In effect the court took the position it was a law and to tell Congress to fix it themselves. Funny, court conservatives wanted the court to decide. Strange twist.

Fix it? The question isn't whether or not it was broken or flawed, but whether it was unconstitutional. This decision erased all distinction between penalty and tax. Well, not exactly - it's more like quantum physics, where an electron can be bot a particle and a wave at the same time. Depemding on how you squint at it, you might see either form. The charge for not having medical insurance of the specified form can be seen as a penalty or a tax depending on how you need it to be seen.

What the Republicans wanted to do in court was to stop what the constitution should have prevented them from doing in Congress.

The court just ruled that there are absolutely no limits on the Federal power of taxation.

George Will is an idiot.

[slowhandluke]

The case challenged the court to fashion a judicially administrable principle that limits Congress' power to act on the mere pretense of regulating interstate commerce. At least Roberts got the court to embrace emphatic language rejecting the Commerce Clause rationale for penalizing the inactivity of not buying insurance.

I consider 'George Will is an idiot' to be simply a truth of nature. But just to check, I went to the article to find out what 'win' he saw. I was right, he was an idiot. What the decision says is that the left can stop trying to squeeze through the window of the commerce clause. They can now walk through the open barn door of the power to tax.

Yes, the window is shut, George, but the horses are out and the barn door is now wide open. Idiot.