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Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option
breitbart ^ | 4/21/10 | CHARLES BABINGTON

Posted on 04/21/2010 3:00:10 PM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.

Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy, Obama said in an interview with CNBC, "I want to get a better picture of what our options are."

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KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhotaxincrease; democrats; liberalfascism; obama; suggests; tax; taxcheatparty; taxes; valueadded; vat
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Crank up "Liar Liar"
1 posted on 04/21/2010 3:00:10 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMXGSP_nPyY&feature=related


2 posted on 04/21/2010 3:01:03 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

3 posted on 04/21/2010 3:01:30 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Raise taxes in a deep recession/depression to balance the budget ..... hmm, where did we see this before?

Next they will be talking about tariffs ....

schu

4 posted on 04/21/2010 3:01:59 PM PDT by schu
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To: Nachum

Is there no end to this faction’s desires?


5 posted on 04/21/2010 3:03:10 PM PDT by Loud Mime (initialpoints.net - - The Constitution as the center of politics -- Download the graph)
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To: Nachum

“Obama” is apparently a word that translates into “What I REALLY meant was...” in English.


6 posted on 04/21/2010 3:04:09 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Conservative Bostonian, atheist pro-lifer, outnumbered by the clueless)
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To: schu
Raise taxes in a deep recession/depression to balance the budget ..... hmm, where did we see this before?

Most recently in Japan.

7 posted on 04/21/2010 3:04:49 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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To: Nachum

Cutting spending by 35% should be an option


8 posted on 04/21/2010 3:04:59 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: Nachum

Really?

< / SNL >


9 posted on 04/21/2010 3:05:39 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (http://www.teapartyslogans.com/cgi-bin/web/index.cgi)
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To: Nachum
President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on [SOME] Americans is still on the table

Ten bucks sez only "select" Americans will end up paying...you know, the dwindling number of Americans who actually PAY taxes any more in this country...

10 posted on 04/21/2010 3:06:32 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
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“Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy,”

Gosh, that sounds like “revenue enhancement” already is a done deal. Chris Christie didn’t need to review all his revenue options because he took a completely difference strategic approach to the problem he faced. He is bound and determined to close a massive budget gap entirely through spending cuts rather than trying to soak the taxpayers even more.

Thus, Obama can hem and haw and actual casual about whether he will or won’t endorse a VAT, but his answer to the question suggests he’s not thinking about the deficit problem the way Chris Christie did. This is why we need housecleaning next fall. Bill Clinton boasts about turning around the budget to create a stream of surpluses that would have wiped out our entire deficit. But he never mentions that it was Republican majority in Congress elected in 1994 that held his feet to the fire on spending and forced him into these balanced budgets. It’s pretty clear Obama won’t change his thinking on such matters without a lot of “prodding” by Congress.


11 posted on 04/21/2010 3:09:21 PM PDT by DrC
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To: Nachum
Oh, please, please.....

Propose a VAT tax. Enact it into law quickly, before November.

It will be the end of Democrats in the House, and cripple them in the Senate.

12 posted on 04/21/2010 3:11:06 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Nachum

I like the “drastically reduce the size of the Federal government” option.


13 posted on 04/21/2010 3:11:20 PM PDT by popdonnelly (I'm so old, I remember when free enterprise was praised, and communism was shunned.)
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To: Nachum

Try it, punk. We’re not in the mood.


14 posted on 04/21/2010 3:11:59 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: Nachum

I wish there was an option to boot this marxist moron out of the WH before he does anymore multi-decade damage to this country.


15 posted on 04/21/2010 3:12:46 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Nachum

haha! love it.

The commission will recommend a VAT, and Obie will say that he is acting upon the advice of learned elders.

What will Americans do?

My bet - nothing.


16 posted on 04/21/2010 3:14:14 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! - Deficit, Debt,- Pfft! Lookit the bright side of our legacy - Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: Nachum

The attitude inside the administration with respect to a VAT is not “if”, it’s just “when.”


17 posted on 04/21/2010 3:16:31 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: WeatherGuy

how can you have a VAT on ‘some’ people. If it is added at each stage of production, do we have to track each widget produced to know if a ‘wealthy’ person bought it?


18 posted on 04/21/2010 3:16:55 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Nachum

19 posted on 04/21/2010 3:17:55 PM PDT by Bobalu (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: DrC
Not to worry. This Congress will NOT raise taxes...their political capital expended over Obamacare and this being an election year and all.

This is merely strategic positioning for the bigger battles of 2011...just how BIG will the cuts be to move the budget toward balance.

Then again, maybe, just maybe the dims ARE stupid enough to advocate a tax increase on every single person resident in the USA.

One can hope, right?

20 posted on 04/21/2010 3:17:56 PM PDT by Mariner
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