First of all, it is a tax. Any time the government takes anything from you, that's a tax.

Second of all, nobody is compelled to buy health insurance. There will be no jack-booted government thugs marching you at gunpoint down to the insurance office to purchase insurance. Rather, if you fail to have purchased insurance before the date the mandate kicks in, you'll pay a tax. You still don't have to buy insurance, and can choose to continue to pay the tax instead. So your overblown rhetoric about the government forcing you into contracts is just that, overblown.

Finally, you're not just disagreeing with me or Obama. You are outright saying that I, and Obama, and anybody who thinks the policies usually described as "liberal" or "progressive" should at least be honestly tried before they are condemned and rejected, is a treacherous, deceitful, evil, tyrannical monster who should be ridiculed and threatened at the least. That's not honest disagreement. That's irrational and ideological hatred.