Lived in Belgium during late 90’s
Things may have changed but average was .56 cents out of each dollar went for taxes.
Besides that travesty here’s the VAT side......
VAT was 20%...... No other taxes on purchases.......
Prices included VAT so you knew you were paying a 20% markup...
O Bummer looks at things from how can I start small and then
ratchet up dependence so there is NO other choice.....
Healthcare was step 1, VAT will be step 2
Vote them out of office in November.
This includes RINO’s................
(Jose Barro, an economist for the Manhattan Institute, told CBS 2 HD that the vat might work if the government agreed to reduce personal income and corporate taxes at the same time.)
If people are stupid enough to fall for this, they deserve what they get. For a temporary reduction in the other taxes, people would allow yet another source of taxation. Predictably, all those tax rates would then go up, giving the socialists exactly what they want.
(Jose Barro, an economist for the Manhattan Institute, told CBS 2 HD that the vat might work if the government agreed to reduce personal income and corporate taxes at the same time.)
If people are stupid enough to fall for this, they deserve what they get. For a temporary reduction in the other taxes, people would allow yet another source of taxation. Predictably, all those tax rates would then go up, giving the socialists exactly what they want.
Just shows what totally incompetants are running our country. Tax, tax, tax, til there is nothing left to tax, no people working and all businesses gone!