The the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare is pure sophistry. By that same kind of twisted reasoning a shovel could easily be deemed to be a chair.
Is Obamacare a tax or a penalty?
Actually, it doesn’t matter what you call it. What matters is WHO is calling it what they say it is.
For the sake of arguement, I would call it both a tax and a penalty. To Obama, I would call it a tax. To Roberts, I would call it a penalty.
That’s how they play politics these days. It’s time we learn to play the same way. To quote a well-known person around here: “Freep them”.