So are you saying that ObamaCare now has to go back to Congress for approval as a TAX?
No, and that's where Roberts screwed us.
Roberts upheld the law by perceiving it in his mind as a tax even if it won't be implemented or considered a tax by the government.
Roberts has said, in so many words, Obamacare's soft underbelly is that it's a tax. Meaning Congress can have at it. It's a creature of Congress, they can unmake it in like kind.
Like Paul544 just said, 'Congress could, in theory, pass a tax code revision that says the penalty for not having insurance is $1.'
It doesn't have to go anywhere. It was construed to be a tax as is.
Based on this ruling, nothing needs Congressional action except the MediCaid portion that was struck down.
The Democrats’ inability for over 3 years to submit a budget notwithstanding, all spending still starts in the House. The law is legal only as a tax. This is why the Democrats went through all their fraudulent gyrations to not portray it as a tax. Taxes need to be allocated first through the House. This is an astronomical tax increase that goes directly to the taxpayer. This mess of using interstate Commerce was intended to make the tax one step removed from a direct tax by making the insurance companies the tax collectors and forcing you to buy insurance.
The game is changed. The key is that the House of Representatives has nowhere to hide. They have to present the cost to we the taxpayers and justify it. Do we have the will to kill this? The curtain is pulled back and now we have to decide.