You can't have it both ways, "dude".
Either fess up and admit that the mandate is a tax and suffer the consequences, come election day.....
OR insist that it is NOT a tax and repeal it yourselves before we do in November.
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Its a tax penalty.
It's a tax, not a penalty. If you don't have children, you pay a higher tax, than of you did, is that a penalty?
If you don't have a mortgage and can't write off the interest, is that a penalty?
A penalty is only issued if you do not pay your taxes on time. If you have ever received a bill from the IRS, it includes the word penalty on their bill.
It's an abuse of the power to tax. Where and when did we decide it was ok to use the taxation power as a means of arbitrarily rewarding and punishing people?