“There is nothing in today’s ruling that would prevent the government from sending federal dollars to any state to help it pay for the implementation of ObamaCare.”
There doen’t need to be.
Under the U.S. Constitution as amended by the Sixteenth Amendment, any federal tax that is a “direct tax” (which is not an “income tax”) must be apportioned among the states in accordance with the respective populations of the various states. Since the apportionment requirement can only apply inequitably across the nation, the correct labeling of any federal tax (other than an income tax) as a “direct tax” amounts to the proverbial “kiss of death,” as no such tax will be enacted.
Tax revenues are not “apportioned among the states in accordance with the respective populations of the various states” today. Every time some pork project bridge is built in one state and not in another, there is unequal apportionment.