Upon passage of the law, ships were no longer permitted to sail in and out of our ports if the health care tax had not been collected by the ship owners and paid over to the government – thus the creation of the first payroll tax in our nation’s history.
There is a difference between a tax and a demand that somebody purchase a private businesses product.
I have said it repeatedly, get a national health care law passed that is paid for with tax monies. Then it would be constitutional. This give Congress unlimited power to demand, it cannot stand.
