Sentences with phrase «possible penalty calls»

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You eliminate the mandate by saying there can be no such mandate and you call the penalty that the law calls a penalty a tax because a tax in the absence of a mandate would be okay, and since there is no longer a mandate, it is possible to reimagine the penalty as a tax and therefore the new law without the mandate and the penalty, but with an optional tax, is constitutional even though that is not the law that Congress actually passed.

Aaron Swartz faced an imminent trial for having downloaded some four million articles from a not - for - profit scholarly archive, and a possible penalty of 35 years in prison and a $ 1 - million fine, which some call disproportionate to his actions