The Value Added Tax: A Hidden New Tax to Finance Much Bigger Government
Posted by admin on November 1st, 2009
This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why a value-added tax would be a dangerous money machine for big government. The evidence from Europe also shows that VATs actually lead to higher income taxes. www.freedomandprosperity.org
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
The VAT is not a bad tax. The problem is the U.S. method of enacting taxes and publishing the cost. Sales taxes are cheerfully line-itemed on your every receipt by businesses eager to distance themselves from the extra cost.
What America needs is a flat tax amendment to limit the damage all our taxes do.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
ObaMao has cut off access to the detainees at Gitmo. His Net Neutrality will cut off free speech on the net, the networks have been threatened and are going along with a media black out of the truth. ObaMao is at War with the 1st amendment. Our government has been taken over by radicals. ObaMaos crackdown is spreading quicker than the swine flue. America get the jackboot off your neck, rise up and take your country back.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
We drift inexorably towards Socialism and slavery. The founding fathers warned a bloated central Government with too much power would lead to the very corruption and and abuse of power we are seeing today. We let it happen.
Barry H.O., has got to go!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
man, it’s cool the way anyone who tries to argue anything has their post deleted. such freedom, such open mindedness, such rationality.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
The path to Socialism is a slow but sure one.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Who the Hell would want to start a small business .TAX, Paper Work ,Fines Lic. Permits, law suites Jail & bankrupt .
untie the Hands of Americans FREEDOM
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Dan is the man.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
newsflash, we’ve been rasing our taxes for years. What planet do you live on? Our corporate tax is terribly high, and our taxation is overbloated and inefficient. Since when have we won a tax protest? lol, i dont know your exact country, but canada has a healthcare crisis every 2-3 years or so. Thats very “reliable”…
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
You want your government to do things for your country and help you etc. Yet when they raise or introduce a new tax you all get angry and protest. Newsflash everythng costs money, man power, electricity that runs almost everything now and everything else. We pay a higher tax rate, we also have free health care for everyone. Yes it has its probles, however it has saved countless lives whether it be politicians who use the service or even the homeless man who has just had an epileptic fit.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
I keep seeing the “R” word (Revolution). It was taxes that started the American Revolution. People have had enough!!
Just read a new book (A Time To Stand by Oliver) that parallels modern day Americans to colonial Americans who fought govt. tyranny. Its based, in part, on real people/events in a small, American town that revolts against federal tyranny. Its fast pace & intense. It was so compelling I couldnt put it down. Its insightful.its a must read thriller.
booksbyoliver. com
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Remember Lew Rockwell’s maxim: It’s not HOW they tax us, it’s HOW MUCH they tax us. An as Dan has shown, new taxes always lead to higher overall taxes.
Oh, and Dan, tax loopholes are not corrupt. They are oases of freedom. Would that we had more of them.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Isn’t it cute how this is called a, free country!?
And yet everything we do costs money. To the point, in some cities and towns, it’s illegal to be homeless!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
If you drive a car, Ill tax the street,
If you try to sit, Ill tax your seat,
If you get too cold, Ill tax the heat,
If you take a walk, Ill tax your feet.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
As with almost all government action, once it starts it’s impossible to get rid of!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
History recalls how great the fall can be
While everybody is sleeping the boats put out to sea
Borne on the wings of time
It seemed the answers were so easy to find
Too late, the prophets [profits] cry
The island is sinking let us take to the sky
Ventura Sheehan Perot Paul
Nader McKinney Kucinich Kaptur
Grayson Gravel Gonzalez Clemente
Choate Carter Baldwin Anderson
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
The man is right. 50 years ago my country (Denmark) had the lowest tax rate in the Western world. Today we have the highest tax in the WORLD and our VAT is 25 %!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Yes Vat. No income tax.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
We don’t need conplicated figure or intelectual looking nice data, its very simple:
When a government have 100$, they make a budget of 150$.
If you give them the opportunity to have 150$ revenue, they got a 200$ budget.
And you will be 50$ poor in the process, all the factual efidencies point that raising taxes worsen your pockets situation and the government spending
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
A fantastic tool for tax-lovers. VAT is now here 25%.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
there wasn’t even a justification, beyond “Oh god, the government well have money to spend on boats.” god forbid a government have money.
it’s worsened by the tired old fact that correlation =/= causation. at least back it up with some shit about gdp, standard of living, etc. if you’re going to equate two essentially seperate things, you might as well do it convincingly.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
“‘Cause I’m the tax man. Yeah, I’m the tax ma-a-annn, and you;re working for no one but me.”
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Great message but the lavender suit and the nasally voice certainly detract from the watchability.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
i shall play the world’s smallest violin for the rich
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
I love the flat tax. Put in a constitutional amendment to end all taxes except the income tax. In the second part of this amendment limit the level of this tax to 20%. No rebate. It could be used for class warfare.