You are TOO funny. I actually I thought you would get looey, your spell checker, to correct my horrible spelling,
The statement stands as written. The links describe exactly what I said in the earlier post. Surely you are aware that a flat tax is merely one TYPE of income tax. My comment referred to the tax piling-on with any sort of income tax (or other as far as that goes) in addition to the VAT. That has apparently been the universal experience of countries adopting a VAT.
Perhaps you can show us some number of the countries (which you say is 130) where the VAT has been in effect for a few years that have NOT experienced that tax growth.
Surely you are aware that a flat tax is merely one TYPE of income tax.No it isn't. Surely you don't think a flat rate makes a flat tax? A flat tax is a specific type of consumption tax.