The Cato Institute has a good post on how, in an effort to defend the "individual mandate" in ObamaCare from constitutional challenge, the Obama administration is defending it as a tax, even though, in arguing for passing the bill, Democrats denied that the penalty for not being insured was a tax. Law professor Randy Barnett has more at Volokh.com.
Thanks to reader-participant-community member-watchdog-content co-creator E. for sending the link.