But the ACA ain't really a tax, is it?

[truedelphi]

6. But again, if it is a tax, even after the mandate date is enforceable,

Then the money should go to the government itself who would then open up for bidding the right of a company or companies to have those tax dollars, by low bids vs higher bids, and by promise of exemplary service.

Instead we now have a situation whereby the very companies that brought about the need for reform of the health care situation are now the companies that have the right to the tax dollars. Perhaps I am wrong, and someone can show me a precedent, but this has not yet happened in our country in such a transperent fashion.

I mean, if you lived in the SF Bay area, in the 1980's, you knew that the mafia was the number one contracting firm for road repair, (road repair that somehow managed to decay only a few short years later) so in a sense the gasoline money taxes are basically collected by the government for the sake of the mafia. But that certainly is not such an admirable situation that it should be duplicated by the SCOTUS on behalf of sick people everywhere in the nation.