To tax or not to tax that is the dilemma, if you have no insurance and go to the emergency room is my part of your care a tax to me or am I now responsible for your care. Doesn't matter does it.
If you smoke and drink too much and I / we have to pay for your care, why? Can I call your care a tax or a mandate or what?
Or a better analogue, if you drive you must get insurance, is that a tax now that we are in a Hamlet sort of way? Is my or your car insurance now a tax?
Get over it wingnuts, Roberts did the constitutional thing, he recognized congress has the right to tax to promote the common good.
"If the Affordable Care Act imposed a mandate, it was ordering people to buy insurance, and nobody likes to be told what to do by the government. But if it was a tax, then it actually gave people a choice: Pay a small tax, or buy health insurance. And if you actually read the bill, that's exactly what the law said. The mandate was directed at "taxpayer". Every taxpayer not otherwise exempted had to indicate on their tax return if they had health insurance, and if they didn't, they had to pay a small penalty." Tax power: The little argument that could - CNN.com
If you smoke and drink too much and I / we have to pay for your care, why? Can I call your care a tax or a mandate or what?
Or a better analogue, if you drive you must get insurance, is that a tax now that we are in a Hamlet sort of way? Is my or your car insurance now a tax?
Get over it wingnuts, Roberts did the constitutional thing, he recognized congress has the right to tax to promote the common good.
"If the Affordable Care Act imposed a mandate, it was ordering people to buy insurance, and nobody likes to be told what to do by the government. But if it was a tax, then it actually gave people a choice: Pay a small tax, or buy health insurance. And if you actually read the bill, that's exactly what the law said. The mandate was directed at "taxpayer