re: #342 subsailor68

What about that fact that the tax is targeted at a specific group. Even if it can get around ex post facto, (which it shouldn’t) isn’t that a Bill of Attainder.

“A bill of attainder was a legislative act that singled out one or more persons and imposed punishment on them, without benefit of trial. Such actions were regarded as odious by the framers of the Constitution because it was the traditional role of a court, judging an individual case, to impose punishment.” William H. Rehnquist