Now That It’s Toothless, Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional

(From Reason)

Seven years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts provided the decisive vote to uphold this requirement, also known as the “individual mandate,” after counterintuitively concluding that it was neither a requirement nor a mandate but was instead merely a condition for avoiding a tax that the law describes as a “penalty.”…

…a federal appeals court ruled last week, the mandate that became a tax is now a mandate again and therefore unconstitutional, a decision that is simultaneously logical and puzzling, revealing the triumph of form over substance in the judicial branch’s failure to stop Congress from exercising powers it was never granted.

Reprinted from: https://www.ac2news.com/2019/12/now-that-its-toothless-obamacares-individual-mandate-is-unconstitutional/