[slowhandluke]

If you are mandated to do something, but don't, what happens? You go to jail or maybe pay a fine. What happens if you don't pay a tax? You go to jail or maybe pay a fine.

What Roberts did here was to find 'emanations of a penumbra' to allow a mandate, just not using that term.

What we have now is an absolute path to whatever mandates the government wants. They just aren't allowed to involve the state governments. This is a path to more centralized tyranny, not less.

[dfwgator]

Just what is being taxed here then? It’s not based on income, and it is not based on the use of anything, so it can’t be a use tax? So just what kind of tax is it? I’ll tell you what kind of tax it is, a head tax, which is very illegal.

[little jeremiah]

Whatever Roberts did, or for whatever reason/s, I hate.