Zoom-boing
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The original bill repeatedly said that not complying with purchasing insurance would result in a penalty/fine and the justices corrected the lawyers when the lawyers would call that penalty/fine a tax. Roberts turned around and called the penalty/fine a tax in order to let ACA stand. Huh? It wasn't a tax until the SC decided it was a tax?
The SCOTUS merely refused to overturn a law which is constitutional under Congress's authority to tax. Whether or not Congress - or anyone for that matter - calls it a tax isn't really relevant.
O but it is.