SCOTUS upholds Affordable Care Act

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

There is plenty of room now to call anything a "tax" and then mandate it under the premise it is a tax.

I was talking about the Stolen Valor Act

I see what you mean about the tax clause setting a rather wide precedent. However, I think the only reason that this was argued under the Commerce Clause and not the taxing power is because all involved knew that passing the Act and selling it to the people would have been impossible had it been classified as a tax.