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No, The authors of the law used, "tax", which makes the law unconstitutional. John Roberts said it isn't a tax, but a "fee", which makes the law constitutional, all of a sudden.
You may praise the authors of the law as being clever, but they're too stupid to know that only The House can levee taxes.
No, they're clever enough to know that the Senate can get around the Origination Clause by taking any legislation that already originated in and passed the House and amending additional contents into it including tax levies. Its called a shell bill, and that nifty little loophole has been exploited for a very, very long time.