But as with any “tax”, it can be repealed with 51 Senators in the budget Reconciliation process. No filibuster possible.
Elect a Republican House, President, and Senate (even a tied one), and repeal is possible.
While I would have preferred it be struck down, Roberts just energized the Right and made it much less difficult for repeal.
We HAD a Republican House, Senate and PResident. Show me all the taxes they repealed. . Why should we think it would be any different next time?
“Elect a Republican House, President, and Senate (even a tied one), and repeal is possible.”
IOW, Roberts essentially vested more power back in Congress by taking it away from the Executive and judicial branches.
This, IMHO, is what he was trying to do. When Obama castigated the SC during his SOTU address Roberts probably then realized that the balance of power needed to shift back to our elected representatives and away from the Executive branch.
Yes, he did this in a circuitous fashion, but with today’s toxic political climate it may have been the least bad of the other choices. Time will tell.
Going forward, it puts more responsibility on us to elect better people to Congress. We have to elect people who will scale back the size of gov’t and hopefully we can do that.