There was this exchange at Sen. Cardin's (D-Md.) recent town hall meeting:
"...I want to know are you going to tell me an individual...that I have to buy health care or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year I don't get it?"
When the State takes your money by force (at the point of a gun, as Ayn Rand put it in "Atlas Shrugged"), it is a tax. Obamacare isn't just raising taxes on employers and millionaires to pay for this boondoggle. They are taking money from everyone who isn't already paying for insurance, or insurance that isn't "approved".
That is a tax, dammit, and I am frustrated that there isn't more notice of this.