OK then if it was A TAX then why wansn;t it shot down doe having originated in the Senate (all tax bills must come from the house)
RE: OK then if it was A TAX then why wansn;t it shot down doe having originated in the Senate (all tax bills must come from the house)
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That’s the problem with Justice Robert’s decision.
If as he says, the law AS WRITTEN is unconstitutional because you cannot penalize someone for not purchasing a product he does not want, then, he should have thrown the bill back to Congress to be RE-WRITTEN so that it WILL BE WRITTEN AS A TAX AND NOT AS A PENALTY.
But he didn’t do that. What he and the 4 others did was RE-IMAGINE the Penalty to be a Tax, clearly over-riding the intent of the law and in effect, LEGISLATING from the bench.
This is a very dangerous and bad precedent.