[92nina]

Although the imposition of a value-added tax (VAT) would violate President Barack Obama’s central campaign promise – a “firm pledge”

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious

[muawiyah]

So, a twofer. They want a VAT to impoverish Americans so they can no loner afford the products made in America, and they want a carbon tax so we all have to move to Mississippi for the winter months.

They are NUTZ.

[napscoordinator]

In Europe they add that into the item so it is not necessarily noticed. However, I am sure here they wouldn’t do that and you would end up with federal, state and VAT on the receipt. Is this going DIRECTLY to the debt?????

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We already have a VAT.

It is called the "corporate income tax."

The federal government is just looking for a new pocket to pick.

[Sir Napsalot]

So the new ‘Austen Goolsbee’ (Alan Krueger) is the same old Austen Goolsbee (aka Christina Roamer)?

All academics think the same way? They only have on playbook, and that is the golden rule they will follow no matter what?

[concerned about politics]

...President Obama, who in April 2010 deemed a VAT “something that would be novel for the United States”,

That's true. Never before in America have so many people been so enslaved and so oppressed by their own government. Never before have we lost so much liberty in such a short time.

[SMARTY]

What??? How??

I ALREADY have the ‘Obamacare dil&^’ up my hoo ha NOW, how are they going to shove the ‘VAT dil&* up there???

[econjack]

This is a REALLY bad idea. For those who don't know, a VAT tax is levied at any point in the production process where that process adds value to the final product. Milton Friedman pointed out years ago that, for something as simple as a loaf of bread, there are 67 steps in the production process. Can you imagine the administrative morass this kind of tax will entail, let alone the number of new agencies and bureaucrats that will have to be hired? While this fits in with Obozo's Marxists leanings, it should make the rest of us scream at our representatives in Washington: DON'T YOU DARE PASS SUCH A TAX.

[LostInBayport]

Liberals will not be happy until those of us who work for a living are forced to use our savings and assets to pay for our daily needs...while those who do not work are fat, well-heeled and worry-free because our decline funds that check they receive every week/month/day/hour.

A VAT on top of income taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, registration fees, property taxes, the forced purchase of health insurance...remember that kid’s game from the 1970s, “Don’t Tip the Waiter”?

[tellw]

VAT tax on car sales and home sales will go over really well. </sarcasm>

[isthisnickcool]

A VAT will destroy the country. Or more accurately, destroy it more and faster.

Treason! Treason! Treason!

[ClearCase_guy]

Obama: "I want tax hikes!"
Republicans: "Not gonna happen."

Obama: "But I really want tax hikes!"
Republicans: "Not gonna happen."

Obama: "Here's an idea. Something different. Something you're really gonna like -- a stupid tax hike."
Republicans: "We'll check with Boehner."

[gunnyg]

The tax-Collector right out of Popeye comix...and why not all is fair game in today’s america....

[Cheetahcat]

And the prefolded Weeper of the house will go along with this?

[Steel Wolf]

A VAT is a great way to clog the arteries of any economy. Just a nice little coat of taxes covering everything. What could go wrong?

[chris37]

I’ma put it to you this way, Barry, you sissy.

Put a VAT tax on goods in this country and so help me God I will never buy anything from inside the borders of the USA again.

I’ll leave the country if I have to.

I ain’t payin you one mother ****in cent more, ya feel me?

[comebacknewt]

That would do it. That move would push us over the brink completely.

Soros' and Obambi's ultimate dream would finally be realized.

[taxcontrol]

The problem is not the method of tax COLLECTION. The problem is SPENDING. We have to get that under control first and the first step to accomplishing that goal is to get Obummer and the Dems out of office.

[Joan Kerrey]

“Why not pass a 5 percent consumption tax to take effect two years from now?”

Why not 50% immediately? /s

[OB1kNOb]

The federal government is eyeing the crumbs left on our diminishing plate and wondering why we need to keep so many crumbs. FUBO!

[Joe Boucher]

Would the imposition of a VAT have to be voted on by the congress and or senate???