So it seems your "claim du jour" is merely a dishonest artifice for debating purposes. Actually specifics do matter since your Nightmare VAT might help all those other countries and solidify the EU to boot.As I have stated many times, I misspoke in that post. To continue to bring it up is more a demonstration of your dishonest debating than mine.
Actually you don't seem to realize that ANY of the common tax forms at issue here (NRST, Flat, & VAT) can be DEFINED to be a "consumption tax"Why do you think I don't realize that? You were the one who claimed the flat tax is an income tax.
That doesn't mean that is works out that way in practice as post #97 shows.Post #97 didn't show anything.
"Many times" you "misspoke"??? Not so. You were mostly attempting to switch the meaning of your original statement until another poster finally nailed you and you admitted you'd screwed up. I've only seen the one time where you admit it.
Any flat tax IS an income tax and it uses income as its basis (and perpetuates the IRS and the tax code pretty much as is). Many people (yourself included) try to warp it around to be a "consumption tax" so that it is - you THINK - more politically palatable and you are aware that the current political fad is for something called a "consumption tax". You can't make a slik purse out of a sow's ear and you cant make an income tax into a consumption tax except in theory. Too bad you (and a lot of economists) don't realize what a consumption tax is. The FairTax is one. It taxes end-consumption at the retain level.
Neither the Nightmare VAT nor the Nightmare Flat are consumption taxes except by the most convoluted definitions and and modifications and that can be seen by the actual experiences in the real world I gave you in #97. Too bad (for you) that you choose not to study them.