Re: "I absolutely reject that notion!" -- Barry
That's not how a tax deduction works, but that aside... the incentive part is constitutional. The mandate part is not. Congress cannot say "buy a Hummer or pay us $50k a year"If you owed 60k in federal income taxes, and you bought a hummer, and that hummer resulted in a 50k tax incentive, then your taxes would then be 10k.
If you chose not to buy a hummer, then your taxes would be 60k. Thus not buying a hummer cost you 50k.
Now, whether that is right or wrong is irrelevant. The question is whether it is constitutional or not.