[silverleaf]

VAT is a tax on consumption. So, when your economy teeters on the edge of slipping from recession into depression, when 10% minimum are unemployed and likely to stay so or grow, discouraging people from buying goods and services is almost guaranteed to tip it.

What I like about this idea is that
a) I can live and consume very little, most of what I want or need I already have
b) The results of this should finally reveal the utter bankruptcy of democrat economic thinking

[concerned about politics]

What I like about this idea is that
a) I can live and consume very little, most of what I want or need I already have

Same here. Imagine whats going to happen inside the huge liberal cities. All they have to eat there is cement and sewer rats.

[Willie Green]

a) I can live and consume very little, most of what I want or need I already have

FedGov has been taxing my income all my life.
Despite that, I diligently lived within my means and managed to scrimp and save a modest little "nest egg".
Now that I can finally afford to consume what I want, these polidiot frauds and swindlers want to change the rules and clobber me with a 30% Sales Tax.