You're right, Kevin. All taxes are considered coercion--in fact that's one of the WSJ's perennial favorites. They have an amazing number of creative riffs on that theme--and they must have managed to convince somebody. Republicans have been running on that for quite a while.   And voting against Bush's tax cut once--or twice-- upon a time is considered McCain's worst heresy--a long trip to Canossa is probably in the offing. It evidently doesn't take much to get conservative Republicans apoplectic on the subject of taxes. There are already quite a few strong forces in US politics always on the alert for even the whiff of a new tax.

But the main problem here is that those who do not want to participate in Hillary's plan will consider themselves singled out for a special tax. So they will portray the government coercion as worse than usual.

And they will get a very favorable hearing from many in Congress--very likely a majority.