>>> Carney is right.
No Siree Bud. Carney is a clown.
Mandate is not a choice. You can’t have both.
You’re right: a “mandate is not a choice.”
A mandate is an order from the government to do something, in this case to purchase health insurance.
Because it is a command or mandate to take an action (like “you must obey the posted speed limit, or pay a penalty”), it is NOT a tax.
Roberts is wrong.
And as I just explained here, not only is Roberts wrong about it being a tax, but the new Roberts Tax he announced is not even itself constitutional.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2901385/posts?page=28#28
In terms of quality of legal analysis, the Roberts Tax opinion is one of the worst Supreme Court opinions in history.