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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135823)	4/6/2010 12:34:07 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543108

It wasn't passed as a tax, but as a mandate with a penalty. I think its pretty clear the courts would find no problem with it if it was a general tax of the penalty amount with a tax refundable tax credit for buying insurance, even just a tax on not having insurance might pass muster, (or might be considered a criminal penalty framed as a tax, which would I think be a reasonably finding, but if there is any way to possibly square this with the constitution I think the courts will give it the benefit of the doubt, so if it was written as such a tax it would probably stand.)