To: Lazlo in PA
Bachmann is coming off as a dope. Sales tax is different than a Vat. Especially when her plan is just shuffling the deck chair.
160 posted on
10/18/2011 5:22:30 PM PDT by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Lazlo in PA
Cain accuses Perry of making the VAT argument.
173 posted on
10/18/2011 5:23:46 PM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Lazlo in PA
Herman is not doing a good job explaining why it is not a VAT. The 9% tax is a tax on corporate profits at the end of the year, just like it is now. He needs to say it very simply.
To: Lazlo in PA
Bachmann is coming off as a dope. Sales tax is different than a Vat. Especially when her plan is just shuffling the deck chair. Bachmann wasn't saying the sales tax is a VAT. She was saying the 9% corporate income tax was a VAT.
Well hell, if a 9% corporate income tax would be a VAT, what would she call the current 35% corporate income tax?
361 posted on
10/18/2011 5:36:44 PM PDT by
Brookhaven
(I oppose an electric border fence, because it might kill the alligators in the moat)
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