I know what Roberts is saying about elections having consequences, and beds having been made we need to lie in them.
But if absolutely anything can be done by the gov’t as long as a “penalty” is associated with it, we have been “saved” from nothing.
This “tax” empowers the secretary of HHS to intrude into every decision that a doctor makes with his patients.
That’s not at all like saying “you buy tires, you pay a federal tax.”
Maybe he closed the door on future expansion of the commerce clause, but he ripped the roof off of the entire structure if this 2,000 page grant of power to HHS is a “tax.”
You’re overlooking the point that he is well aware, as is Obama, that there is a larger far more injurious rash of Lawsuits over this legislation.