A VAT just gives the professional politicians like Calgary Ted something else to tinker with that is politically easier to raise than income tax. If what I saw in Europe is any guide it will be 30% in no time. I am shocked that a globalist like Cruz wants us to be more like Europe. /s
What you saw in Europe was on top of income taxes. I was there as well. Cruz’s plan will make drastically shrink the IRS as well. Those of us who live by the (apparently antiquated on FR) idea that smaller government is better find it superior to Trump’s Warren Buffet-like ideations about taxing the ever higher.
And you failed — miserably — to provide a meaningful response to my question, so I will rephrase it slightly and ask it again: “Do you somehow think the current system and rates are not being “tinkered with?”