Roberts decision didn’t open floodgates for ‘compulsion through taxation’

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Memo to Mitt Romney: Obamacare is a tax because the Supreme Court rewrote the law to make it one. The Supreme Court did not uphold Obamacare’s individual insurance mandate as a tax.

This is a difficult legal distinction to explain, but one that matters nonetheless.

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