[GraceG]

Any Tax on producers will ALWAYS be passed onto the consumers and a VAT tax will be an indirect Tax on the poor.

[PapaBear3625]

Any Tax on producers will ALWAYS be passed onto the consumers and a VAT tax will be an indirect Tax on the poor.

Good. The major problem with holding down government spending is that low-income voters pay little-or-no taxes, while benefiting disproportionately from government spending. Thus they will vote for big spenders.