{"id":713298,"date":"2010-04-09T19:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T23:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f22\/here-come-vat-mother-all-taxes-42090\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T23:18:49","slug":"here-come-the-vat-the-mother-of-all-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713298","title":{"rendered":"Here Come the VAT, the Mother of All Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/566-here-come-the-vat-the-mother-of-all-taxes\" ><b><font color=\"#0d507a\">Here Come the VAT, the Mother of All Taxes <\/font><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n The Value Added Tax (VAT) cat is finally creeping out of its bag. No longer is it just those hysterical rumor-mongers like columnist Charles Krauthammer speculating on the next national tax to be imposed by the Obama administration. Now it&#8217;s none other than Obama economic adviser Paul Volcker telling the New York Historical Society that a VAT should be considered to get the deficit under control. For good measure, he threw in taxes on carbon and energy.<br \/>\nA VAT is the mother of all taxes. Think of it as it is, a national sales tax imposed on virtually everything sold, with collections at every sales point (where value is added) from origin to ultimate consumer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/566-here-come-the-vat-the-mother-of-all-taxes\" ><font color=\"#0d507a\">Read more now.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><font size=\"4\">Center for Individual Freedom<br \/>\n<\/font><\/b>917-B King Street<br \/>\nAlexandria, VA 22314<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:info@cfif.org\">info@cfif.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\" ><font color=\"#0d507a\">http:\/\/www.cfif.org<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center for Individual Freedom is a nonpartisan constitutional advocacy organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights in the legal, legislative and educational arenas.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t miss any of CFIF&#8217;s Lunchtime Liberty Updates or Action Alerts. Make sure our latest news and commentary continues to reach your e-mail inbox. Please add <a href=\"mailto:info@cfif.org\">info@cfif.org<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:cfif@cfiflistmanager.org\">cfif@cfiflistmanager.org<\/a> to your address book, buddy list or accepted senders list now.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here Come the VAT, the Mother of All Taxes The Value Added Tax (VAT) cat is finally creeping out of its bag. No longer is it just those hysterical rumor-mongers like columnist Charles Krauthammer speculating on the next national tax to be imposed by the Obama administration. Now it&#8217;s none other than Obama economic adviser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZyO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}