“The law, Roberts wrote, “makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income. And if the mandate is in effect just a tax hike on certain taxpayers who do not have health insurance, it may be within Congress’s constitutional power to tax.”
So now our Government can tax on nothing?
“So now our Government can tax on nothing?”
More than that, they can use the tax code as a penal code, penalizing citizens for their behavioral and economic choices. In a sense, progressive taxation already does this and the code has been used for a long time for social and economic engineering but this is something not done before: we’ll tax you for doing nothing.