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.
Fair enough. I still rather have the 20 million illegals out of my country (I realize that is a lot to ask of our government, which is so busy shipping my cash to Africa for Aids, and getting ready to fund retired millionaire's prescription drugs to the tune of 400 billion or so)