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The VAT: Coming Soon To A Campaign Stop Near You (Cruz Tax Plan)
American Enterprise Institute ^
| February 8
| Alan D. Viard
Posted on 02/08/2016 7:44:14 PM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Jane Long
A VAT tax has NEVER eliminated ANYTHING!!I thought we were talking about Ted Cruz's tax plan. Let's stop with the strawmans.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:21:53 PM PST
by
Hoodat
(Article 4, Section 4)
To: Hoodat
Check your frequency, Kenneth....that’s exactly what we’re talking about....CRuz’s Tax plan....like the title of this thread says.....The VAT....(Cruz tax plan).
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:23:57 PM PST
by
Jane Long
(Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
To: Helicondelta
American Enterprise Institute... Not familiar with them.
What’s their position on importing Mexican hookers?
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:25:56 PM PST
by
JJ_Folderol
(Just my opinion and only worth what you paid for it.)
To: Leto
You’ll have to ask a Trump supporter.
To: Jumper
You said a mouthful, and how!
No tax ever seems to “sunset” or truly go down.
I don’t trust a VAT tax, nor anything that smells of how euro fools fund their socialist state.
Simplify the income tax we have and reduce gov’t to essentials.
March in the streets to make it happen.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:30:00 PM PST
by
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: Helicondelta
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:31:02 PM PST
by
Gasshog
(Newly discovered element Trumpamentium causes a Chain Reaction of Testicular Fortitude!!)
To: Helicondelta
I really don’t like the VAT proposal. It will add layers of bureaucratic paperwork for businesses, and in a short
period of time the gov’t will declare that they need to raise income taxes in addition to the VAT.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:38:08 PM PST
by
Rusty0604
(1q)
To: Dead Corpse
No, I’m not sure. I know that if I can get out of CA and to NV, TX or FL that I will not owe State taxes and there is no sales tax on my internet orders. I know a 14 % price increase would lower sales. I do not know if I’m better paying 30% of my net income to the Feds or giving them 14% of sales instead.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:38:25 PM PST
by
LucienCA13
(sorry if you are microaggrieved)
To: Helicondelta
The AEI is hardly anti-conservative. Their tax analysis is usually spot on
Worries me that Cruz thinks that he can tax businesses. It is well known that businesses do not pay taxes their customers do.
The smart guy fails here
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:39:25 PM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: EternalVigilance
I’m a Cruz supporter but I do not like the VAT tax proposal.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:39:52 PM PST
by
Rusty0604
(1q)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:39:54 PM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: LucienCA13
And that is why a VAT does not work
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:40:37 PM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Rurudyne
Not really because it is applied at every stop on the supply chain. You pay the final price plus an additional sales tax. You do not see the built in taxes along the way
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:42:22 PM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Nifster
“It is well known that businesses do not pay taxes their customers do.”
_____________________
I used to believe that, and oddly still do. Yet after becoming a business owner, I found that it’s not always true.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:46:10 PM PST
by
LucienCA13
(sorry if you are microaggrieved)
To: Helicondelta
The sCruz tax plan was dreamed up by his crony capitalist donors. It shifts the corporate taxes directly to small businesses, small business owners and employees.
All you need to know about the sCruz tax plan is his major donor Robert Mercer, a hedge fund manager owes $10 to $15 BILLION in taxes...YES BILLION. Would he like to shift that burden on to you? YOU BET!
To: Rusty0604
For awhile, I had Cruz supporters telling me this wasn’t a VAT, when I knew darned well it was.
Glad to see that you’re not in denial.
To: Nifster
What you do get with a VAT is access to all the untaxed money from illicit gains from prostitution, drugs and gambling.
Want to pay less tax, spend less.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:51:29 PM PST
by
Edison
(I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
To: Helicondelta
"...Once a VAT is in place, Congress could easily increase the VAT any time it wants more taxpayer money to pay for new programs. Continually increasing the size of government would become considerably less painful because small increases in the VAT rate could raise substantial sums of revenue. An increase of just 1 percent would raise more than $80 billion per year by the end of the decade. The ability of the VAT to raise money will almost certainly prove irresistible to Members of Congress. The experience of other industrialized countries bears this out. As Table 1 shows, 29 of the 30 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have implemented VATs..."
The Value-Added Tax Is Wrong for the United States
To: Helicondelta
A flat tax is not a VAT.
This article is just anti-Conservative propaganda.
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posted on
02/08/2016 9:00:54 PM PST
by
UnwashedPeasant
(A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
To: Helicondelta
Keeping VAT records is extremely complicated and will kill small business
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posted on
02/08/2016 9:07:33 PM PST
by
PGR88
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