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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Yeah, that's one of those laws that feels right but reads wrong. I can see how it didn't pass First Amendment scrutiny, the courts opinion seems to leave plenty of room to relegislate, though.
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There is plenty of room now to call anything a "tax" and then mandate it under the premise it is a tax.
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The ruling relied on a technical explanation of how the individual mandate could be categorized. Roberts, in the opinion, said the mandate could not be upheld under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. However, it could be upheld under the government's power to tax.
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Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1z6ESIZS3
From here on out whatever the government wants from the people it will be labelled as a tax.