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Obama Admin. Mulling National Sales Tax: 'Value Added Tax' Has People Screaming To Heck With 'Vat'
WCBS-TV ^ | April 7, 2010 | Marcia Kramer

Posted on 04/07/2010 3:11:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do it then cap and trade see how far they can push?


41 posted on 04/07/2010 3:30:16 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If enacted, this will absolutely kill businesses (with even more massive layoffs) and spending by most everyone will come to a screeching halt. Predictions are for $4.00 a gallon gas by summertime. Combine that with the VAT, amnesty, cap and trade (extremely higher utility bills) and people will be so on-the-edge. or pushed over it.


42 posted on 04/07/2010 3:30:25 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Keep in mind that the National Retail Sales Tax (NRST) component of the FairTax legislation (HR 25) is a RETAIL only sales tax and is not a VAT.

The FairTax abolishes the IRS tax code (every federal tax, income, cap gains, business profits, everything) in toto and requires repeal of the 16th Amendment within 7 years.

Again the FairTax ‘removes’ all taxes that accumulate business-to-business (B2B) in the production and supply chains and then ‘replaces’ them at the ***retail end*** with an NRST.

So the FairTax is not and cannot ever be a VAT. Keep that in mind as we move forward to repeal the 16th Amendment, we will need the FairTax to fund government.

This will become a larger issue as peoople gradually learn that it is the 16th Amendment by which the courts will reluctantly uphold Obamacare, hence we need to repeal it.

As this issue gets broadcast, do not allow the Left to blur and confuse the distinction between a VAT and the FairTax.

More info that the FAIRTAX IS NOT A VAT is found here (6th caret item from bottom):

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq_answers


43 posted on 04/07/2010 3:30:36 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: KansasGirl

Exactly! Weren’t we told that the Obamanation bills were going to reduce federal spending??? Riiiiight. Is that the Brooklyn bridge I see up for sale?


44 posted on 04/07/2010 3:30:37 PM PDT by Danae ( The sleeping Giant is awake)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We do need new taxes but we dont need a vat or a sales tax. wha twe need is a tax on the people who got us into this mess.We need taxes on news print. FcCC licenses and network agreements with affiliates should be taxed as property. Taxes also on legal profits by lawyers. Taxes on Berkenstocks, tied dyed shirts. Also taxes on entertainement royalties and every other tax we can think of on the people who gave us this mess.


45 posted on 04/07/2010 3:32:15 PM PDT by bilhosty (Don' t tax people tax newsprint)
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To: MamaDearest
Predictions are for $4.00 a gallon gas by summertime.

I hadn't heard that. Looks like I picked a very good time to start working from home.

46 posted on 04/07/2010 3:33:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress." - Mark Twain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure DemocRAT congressmen will want to vote on this in the time left before the midterm elecitons.


47 posted on 04/07/2010 3:35:02 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-apf-1105567323.html?x=0&.v=1

This will give you all the warm and fuzzy’s.....

48 posted on 04/07/2010 3:35:50 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: lowbridge
...if the government agreed to reduce personal income and corporate taxes at the same time.

Of course they'll agree to that.

"Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye"

Until the time comes to actually reduce the other taxes.

"Oops. So sorry. We really meant to. But, economic circumstances are so dire we just can't afford to right now. We'll re-consider next year."

49 posted on 04/07/2010 3:40:19 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Throw them out! Then, Impeach the Punk!


50 posted on 04/07/2010 3:45:38 PM PDT by RedMDer (0 = one D Ten T : Recycle Congress in 2010, 2012... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: Dr. Ursus

Obama must drink malt liquor huh?


51 posted on 04/07/2010 3:46:49 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: Jeff Chandler
I hadn't heard that. Looks like I picked a very good time to start working from home.

Here you go, from a link I saw this AM:

Santelli - $4 Gas, $150 oil coming this summer

Snip: And with this flight from equities to commodities, Santelli explained it could and will cause an upward adjustment in energy prices.

"We have the cyclical side - we're going to have $4 gas this summer probably anyway," Santelli explained. "It's a great trade. Maria. You know, we've been to $150 before and I don't see why it couldn't happen again."

52 posted on 04/07/2010 3:53:08 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

I’m sure we’ll get the hourly news stories about the price of gasoline we get during Republican presidencies.


53 posted on 04/07/2010 3:54:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Dissent is Racism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But don’t you see, the tax is being paid by all those rich manufacturers, it is not being directly levied on the individual. Now if those greedy capitalist manufactures, pass on the tax to the consumer it is NOT Obama’s fault!

(Just trying to be ahead of the MSM in their justification of why the VAT won’t violate Obama’s ‘pledge’ not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250K or was it only $200K per year)


54 posted on 04/07/2010 3:54:53 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: savedbygrace

YOU GOT THAT ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. That is exactly what he wants.


55 posted on 04/07/2010 3:55:46 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: eyrish69

You meant to say Night Train or Thunderbird, right?? Possibly MD 20/20???


Yeah. You are correct. My days of knowing such specifics are long past.

Thanks for keeping me honest!!!!


56 posted on 04/07/2010 3:55:56 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: eyrish69

Is Ripple still available?


57 posted on 04/07/2010 3:58:41 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: savedbygrace

Bingo. You have broken the code. God help us all.


58 posted on 04/07/2010 3:59:34 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Commie Obami won't do it before the 2010 elections and will call the idea ridiculous but right after the elections he'll try to push it through and the MSM will endorse it full force.
59 posted on 04/07/2010 4:01:57 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Jeff Chandler
I’m sure we’ll get the hourly news stories about the price of gasoline we get during Republican presidencies.

Precisely the reason we've almost (at our house) entirely quit watching TV news. Journalism is apparently completely dead. When I watch opinion based shows, I expect that, but not from those who interject their personal idealism into world, national and local news.

Am I alone in wondering why US newscasters report little if anything about foreign countries? They've gravitated instead to entertainment industry gossip and dumbed down their "alleged" reporting. A 30 second video snippet is the most we can expect these days from those who have supposedly done their homework on world matters.

60 posted on 04/07/2010 4:02:40 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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