Democrats’ slippery legal slope: Cato expert says mandate “not a valid tax”

Democrats continue to declare ObamaCare is not a tax bill. Fortunately, lobotomies haven’t been given to all Americans. Yet.

The only reason ObamaCare wasn’t tossed out by the Supreme Court is the narrow argument Democrats’ lawyers built—if the mandate failed on the Commerce Clause (it did as we predicted), it could still be upheld as a tax and not a penalty.

Another essay by Byron York explains the deception President Barack Obama’s lawyers used to argue their case for the bill that socializes U.S. healthcare.

Basically, ObamaCare promoters got to have it both ways. Or did they?

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