Timothy Noah, The New Republic
Here’s what I don’t get. Everybody on the right is screaming and yelling about how the Supreme Court haslabelled President Obama a tax-raiser for imposing a financial penalty on people who don’t purchase health insurance. So, okay, it’s a tax, but it will only be leveled against a small group of taxpayers who can’t be induced by new government subsidies to purchase health insurance. If you accept that it’s a tax, as Romney belatedly is doing, then you also have to accept that the Supreme Court was right not to strike down...