Dan McLaughlin
For constitutional purposes, it's a tax. In economic effect, it's a tax. When the American Revolutionaries protested taxation without representation, they didn't distinguish between import duties on tea & sales taxes on paper.
Kurt Schlichter
Apples and tomatoes are both technically fruits, but they’re very different things. When you call it tax, you’re not trying to make things clearer. You are trying to obfuscate.