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  • TRANSCRIPT & AUDIO: Supreme Court: The Health Care Law And The Individual Mandate Day 2

    06/29/2012 9:09:23 AM PDT · by Til I am the last man standing · 3 replies
    NPR ^ | 3/27/12 | SCOTUS
    CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Why didn't Congress call it a tax, then? SG VERRILLI: Well - CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: You're telling me they thought of it as a tax, they defended it on the tax power. Why didn't they say it was a tax? SG VERRILLI: They might have thought, Your Honor, that calling it a penalty as they did would make it more effective in accomplishing its objective. But it is — in the Internal Revenue Code it is collected by the IRS on April 15th. I don't think this is a situation in which you can say - CHIEF...