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Why Ted Cruz’s VAT really is a VAT
American Enterprise Institute ^ | 01/15/16 | James Pethokoukis

Posted on 04/15/2016 10:56:53 PM PDT by Hanna548

Make no mistake here. Cruz is proposing a VAT add-on to the existing personal income tax system.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; badidea; breakingjanuarynews; cruz; election2016; elections; fairtax; flat; flattax; greedylyincruz; incometax; irs; tax; taxes; tedcruz; texas; vat; vattax
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To: nopardons

Don’t forget being King of a North American Community of which his wife is Queen.


21 posted on 04/15/2016 11:23:26 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: Fai Mao

I’ve lived in the UK where the VAT is 20%. This is a bad tax


22 posted on 04/15/2016 11:23:38 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Ophiucus

Not like a VAT TAX; this adds on MUCH more than what is added on now! And it makes all products extremely expensive!


23 posted on 04/15/2016 11:23:58 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Hanna548
Yes, that too!

And Heidi has pulled the old Hillary:"VOTE FOR TED AND YOU ALSO GET ME" routine. Just what we absolutely do NOT need nor want!

24 posted on 04/15/2016 11:25:15 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Cruz doesn’t know ANYTHING at all about finance, business, taxes, or anything else. He is NOT “brilliant” and has NO ideas of his own, other than dreaming of having lots of money, power, adulation, and sex.

Well, he has 'brilliantly' deceived many people... But I do agree that Cruz is like a sponge.. nothing original about him.. but he is keen on where/what/who to attach himself to hone his deceptive skills. He does have the 'begging' act down pat.

25 posted on 04/15/2016 11:25:19 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Ophiucus

How far do you think they would get by imposing a 16% tax directly on the business?? This is not the same thing.


26 posted on 04/15/2016 11:28:35 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: nopardons

I’m not a fan of Heidi. Working 80 hours a week and letting your kids be raised by the help is cruel.


27 posted on 04/15/2016 11:30:08 PM PDT by RedWulf
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To: Just mythoughts

Well, he has ‘brilliantly’ deceived many people..
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Yes, the spirit of the Anti-Christ is growing in the world as the “restrainer” prepares to leave. Look up! Your redemption draws near!


28 posted on 04/15/2016 11:31:04 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: dadfly

That’s right, by the time it gets to the consumer the tax paid is actually far more than 16%. If the business makes cookies it has to buy sugar with a 16% tax on it, all products that go into making the cookies have had the 16% added on which increases the COST of the cookie, then there is an additional 16% tax added on for the consumer to pay.


29 posted on 04/15/2016 11:32:20 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: SubMareener
Yes, the spirit of the Anti-Christ is growing in the world as the “restrainer” prepares to leave. Look up! Your redemption draws near!

Christ said the 'first' tribulation would be deception sowed by those coming in His name. One must need know the deception to escape the 'first' tribulation.

30 posted on 04/15/2016 11:33:32 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: RedWulf

That older girl worries me. She so often looks so sad and lost. It is disturbing:(


31 posted on 04/15/2016 11:36:33 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: Just mythoughts

Cruz’s VAT tax comes from his co-candidate, wife Heidi... Their VAT tax, they never discuss comes from the European Union... Like Heidi’s work on a North American Union... Ted does not know squat about taxes, but his wife sure does.


It is unbelievable to me that anyone would think a European/NAFTA style VAT Tax is a conservative idea! Or a good idea!!

Glad James P. published this...


32 posted on 04/15/2016 11:36:39 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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To: bushwon
It is unbelievable to me that anyone would think a European/NAFTA style VAT Tax is a conservative idea! Or a good idea!!

And on top of an income tax vs replacing an income tax. As if DC won't increase BOTH taxes. Absolutely insane.

33 posted on 04/15/2016 11:39:13 PM PDT by niki
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To: nopardons

I don’t see how to do that. Can I have a clue?


34 posted on 04/15/2016 11:39:14 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: Just mythoughts
I couldn't agree with you more, if I tried! :-)

He completely HID everything about himself and told one whopper of a story about himself, after another, when he ran for the Senate. He looked really good on paper, but he's just a FLIM-FLAM CONMAN ! He NEVER told the Texas populace that he was born and lived in Canada the first 4 years of his life. He has lied by omission and commission, but now, finally, a lot of info has come out about him, his family, his wife and it's all UGLY !

The FAIR TAX and the VAT, go back to Forbes and yes, even earlier than that, of the Dem side. THIS IS NOT TED'S IDEA AND HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND IT AT ALL. Hell, I doubt that he even wrote a word of the plan.

He's for amnesty, he's not for amnesty, he's for bring in hundreds of thousand of new H-1Bers...then he stops talking about that, he's for something at the border, he welcomes, WITH OPEN ARMS, with Crazy beck, the HORDE of damned ILLEGAL ALIENS and helps them to get FREE STUFF, but after months of Trump yelling about BUILD THE WALL, he finally chimes in as ME TOO TED. Trump says BOMB, so then months later TEDDY says CARPET BOMB ISIS.

Cruz is nothing but ME TOO TED !

The list of his lies, foibles, purloined ideas, falsehoods, dirty tricks, insults, name calling, smirks and stupified looks is what and who he is. He's NEVER really accomplished anything other than to fool people and suck off the government teat.

35 posted on 04/15/2016 11:39:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons; Hanna548
Well first off I posed a respectful question to Hanna548, because I was attempting to learn, and hanna548 respectfully replied.
It's no wonder no one listens to you since you try to persuade with insults.


36 posted on 04/15/2016 11:40:12 PM PDT by Dstorm ( Cruz 2016)
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To: niki

It is like a big steal:( But how do we get the word out?


37 posted on 04/15/2016 11:40:49 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: nopardons
There is another bizarre thing about Cruz's VAT tax... I remember back when Clinton/algore attempted to ‘sell’ US on a VAT tax and Rush went ballistic over such a socialist idea... I have yet to read one word (I stopped listening to Rush in 2012) about Rush having any problems with a so called ‘consistent’ conservative, closest to Reagan, since Reagan, proposing a VAT tax. There is something strange that has darkened over the supposed ‘conservative’ wing of the GOPe.
38 posted on 04/15/2016 11:41:23 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: RedWulf

Not to mention the fact that Ted and Heidi have lived apart for the majority of their marriage and the girls call him “THE GUEST”.


39 posted on 04/15/2016 11:41:48 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Cruz’s “FLAT TAX” at 10% is also far too low, which has already been proven decades ago. His entire FLAT TAX and VAT proposals will utterly destroy this nation, cripple the economy, and terminally harm all but the 1% of the 1%ers.
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Don’t you wonder if that is not the goal?


40 posted on 04/15/2016 11:45:08 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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