Posted on 12/04/2009 6:27:00 PM PST by iowamark
Glenn Beck argues for a federal Value Added Tax. O'Reilly wants a federal sales tax.
By the time these guys are done, we’ll have all of the above.
Pelosi Open To Raising Taxes On Everything (VAT) Including The Poor
He needs to know that you can't stoke up the conservatives and expect them to follow you over a cliff like lemmings. Beck has jumped the shark.
Like HELL!!! Beck....I love ya’, man....but WHAT are you smokin’? When I left England....it was 17.5%!!!!! (2000) Screw that! That didn’t include property and income taxes either!
I'd go with a Federal Sales Tax, but only AFTER we eliminate the individual and corporate income tax.
Do you thing he’s confusing ‘VAT’ with ‘Fair Tax?’
>> Beck is crazy <<
I’ve thought that for a long time.
Now let’s hope that his die-hard worshippers here on FR will start to see the light.
I can't bear watching Beck because of his emotionalism, but I certainly credit him with exposing the Obama administration for what it is and alerting Americans to the danger therein.
That said, he should evidently shut up about economic matters. A value added tax is a tax on capital -- the last thing a capitalist nation needs or wants.
Sheesh, they just can't stop at what they know. They have to keep going till they prove their ignorance. Sigh.
They are NUTS!!!!
I don’t dislike Beck, but for some reason I’ve been unable to get on the Beck bandwagon. To me, he seems like he could very easily go off into loopy land.
Are you talking about Glenn Beck the Morgbot lightweight idiot? And his equally lightweight idiot friend O’Reilly?
Are you sure Beck was not talking about the ‘fair tax’? There is a big difference between a VAT and the Fair tax.
Who finally got to Beck? This isn’t his idea - he isn’t that creative.
And I'm gonna take some heat here....but Beck did go on to say...there HAS to be reduced spending to go along with this..and Constitutional Admendments...or it's no deal.
Personally...I think the debt is going to KILL us...IF we don't address it.
And I think Beck was throwing one idea out there.
And fellow FReepers...I am not a big Beck fan...fwiw-
I swear Beck is bi-polar.
95% of the time, I love his ideas, and then his has disastrous ideas like this!
No, he started advocating a VAT “to pay down the debt” back in November, after Pelosi floated it in October. Beck apparently buys the idea that we can tax our way to prosperity.
From the November 24 edition of Fox News’ Glenn Beck TV:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911240041
I’d suspect it was Fair Tax, too.
However, if they’d give up the personal (and corporate) income tax in favor of a sales tax or even VAT, that would work. The most intrusive and oppressive tax of all is the personal income tax.
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