VAT is neither fair nor responsible

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 05/15/2010 | Kevin Price

[Patriot1259]

It is interesting how the left will take a politically popular idea and pervert it into something that will only further destroy a country that is already well down the road to serfdom. The latest example is the Obama administration's repeated statements that it is looking into the possibility of a Value Added Tax (VAT). This comes after almost two decades of millions of Americans advocating a "Fair Tax" instead of the current income tax system. Obama's apologists will state that they both are, after all, taxes on consumption. The similarities after that, however, largely evaporate.

The Fair Tax is a system that has been promoted for years by individuals who support limited government and greater voter participation in the political process. Today, less than half of all Americans pay federal income taxes. This reality has been like a continuous cold shower on a population that should be on fire because government is out of control. A "Fair Tax" would be a national sales tax on every good and service. Everyone would know that cost of government at every transaction. Millions of Americans who have been sleeping politically, would come to an abrupt awakening. Centerpiece in this strategy would be that this tax would replace the very destructive and archaic income tax system, which wages a direct war on wealth and job creation.

[Daveinyork]

“You’d probably get busted for tax evasion.”

By whom? You’re promising to get rid if the IRS?

[MNJohnnie]

The Progressive Political/Media machine is all ready gearing up to push the idea that tax hikes will “fix the debt crisis” when the faux “Debt Reduction Commission” unveils their “fix” later this year. This is just the latest repeat of the old lie.

In 1986 to Reagan, 1991 to Bush 1 and 1993 to Clinton the Progressives in Congress made the same fraudulent promises. Give us these massive tax hikes now and later we will cut the spending to balance the budget.

We gave them the tax hikes and Federal Spending exploded faster then we could pay for it.

The ONLY time we have gotten a balanced budget in the last 40 years is when the post 1994 election Republican Congress took the public relations hits to actually reign in the spending. Contrary to the Progressive mythology, Bill Clinton’s tax hikes did not do that. The last Democrat Congress budget forecast in 1994 forecast $200 billion deficits for the rest of the 1990s.

So this time the response of the American people should be

“Look we have heard this lie before. This time we want the spending cuts in place first, then 4 or 5 years down the road, when you have shown you can be responsible with the people’s purse, then you can come ask us for tax hikes.