been approved under the Commerce clause.

From www.scotusblog.com

Amy Howe: By the way, the opinions collectively are a monster. The Chief's opinion is 59 pages, Justice Ginsburg's opinion is 61 pages, the four dissenters are 65 pages, followed by a short two-pager from Justice Thomas. You do the math.

"My wife told me to stop this. Now what the hell am I supposed to do. Christ I can't go home. She'll probably lose all that easy money, cause I couldn't deliver.
Maybe I should have said something? Goddamit, this must be discrimination or something."

the precedent now is that congress can pass and the president can sign social welfare laws without ever uttering the word "tax".

just because the supreme court said it's a tax doesn't mean congress has to SAY it's a tax. they just have to put in the same kind of language that WORKED in aca.

He wanted to be on the side that got to write the majority opinion and set the precedent. They did rule the the mandate was unconstitutional under the commerce clause, but constitutional as a tax. Kinda odd since the administration was arguing this was not a tax.

I am very weary as to what the long term impact of this will be, especially with Roberts twisting the opinion his way. I would like to see detailed analysis to really know how limited or broad this ruling is to other things.