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I Smell A VAT
By Carole on Sep 27, 2009
Four months ago I wrote in this space about the possibility of a value added tax or VAT - a federal sales tax on virtually anything purchased by everyone - as a way to pay for President Obama's obscenely expensive ideas. At that time I said it would be the perfect shell game - take hard earned money from everyone, everyday and use that money to "give" them things like a national health care system. Some in the administration were advocating the idea. Others were refusing to rule it out. And now, it's front and center again.
