[mosaicwolf]

I'm just a simple retired soldier but it appears to me that the Supreme Court just raised everybody’s taxes. I always thought Congress had to do that.

[RJS1950]

From one retiree to another; I believe that is exactly the point. The supreme court says that it is a tax but that now means that the law as it is written WITHOUT any tax provision is invalid because the “tax” was not a part of the bill. The SC cannot change the wording of the law, they can rule that the mandate is really a tax that is permissible. Without changes to the law the mandate/tax is not enforceable because the tax was never voted on as a tax.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Raised our taxes, which are now payable to Humana?

[uncbob]

I'm just a simple retired soldier but it appears to me that the Supreme Court just raised everybody’s taxes. I always thought Congress had to do that.

I wonder if this means it has to go back to congress to st the rates etc etc

If so the ruling gave the house the power to kill it by not passing the taxes