re: Has govt ever defied a president like this?

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Yeah, and so was John Roberts who supposedly "re-wrote" the ACA to make it a tax and allegedly constitutional. However, we were told the whole time it was "laughingly" debated with a majority Democrat Congress, and passed using closure rules, that it was NOT a tax!

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If I were sitting on that case, and I heard evidence that the legislative body explicitly denied that it was a tax, I would have rejected the tax argument; however, I cannot fully fault Roberts for his decision. They don't have to call it a tax in the act. They can deny that it's a tax to the public, but if it has the effect of a tax (looks like a duck, quacks like a duck), Congress has the power to levy such a tax. If anything, I can respect Roberts for making that decision, because it was probably the correct decision, as much as I hate to say it. He didn't decide the politically prudent outcome, then formulate his reasoning to support that outcome.

I would have taken them at their word and held that it was NOT a tax, as they stated.