[fortaydoos]

So your plan is this: rather than have our government secure the borders, you want to tax me on every G*d damn thing I buy? No thanks. I'd rather just not have the 20 million law breakers in my country.

[Rockitz]

You missed my comments in the second paragraph. The implementation is ideally revenue neutral for those legal residents who are responsible in paying and filing their tax returns.

Although all would pay it [VAT], those legal residents who are responsible in paying and filing their tax returns could recoup such taxes through reduced income tax rates. For those at the lower end of the economic scale, such taxes could be offset by credits.

VAT attacks illegal immigrants in their pockets through a higer cost of living. This serves two purposes: 1) covering costs of illegal immigration and 2) discouragement of illegal immigration.