Read the whole paragraph to see how baseless the “uniformity of taxes” claim is –

Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Note that the specific Congressional powers stated in this paragraph are:
To lay and collect Taxes
To lay and collect Duties
To lay and collect Imposts and Excises

Note also, that the specific requirements for uniformity are applied to:
Duties
Imposts and Excises

Notice something missing? That’s right. Taxes are stated as being w/in the powers of Congress, while they are specifically and intentionally omitted from the requirement of uniformity.

The “uniformity of taxes” claim is completely bogus, from a Constitutional perspective.

One important point the wing-nuts always avoid is that one of the things this section says is:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes… to pay the Debts and provide for the… general Welfare of the United States.
[and later in the same section]
[The Congress shall have Power] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

READ IT

I know, it’s ridiculous. If only the new law provided some kind of, I don’t know, subsidies maybe? So that poor people could afford insurance? That would have been such a good idea. Stoopid Democrats.

So, when you force the poor into buying insurance….and they don’t….you charge them tax.

The lower half of income earners pay less than 3% of the tax burden now with many of them paying nothing. So, how will you collect from them? What if they don’t pay? Are you willing to jail them?