obama floats the idea of a vat tax for America

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I'm against it.

1) why change, there is little benefit over VAT vs. whatever we call the American version of sales tax (can't remember). Either way the end consumer pays the tax, it is just hidden now. We forget we are taxed.

2) All this does is hide the tax allowing the government to tax more (20% vat tax in most of Europe is huge compared to ~8% our sales tax) I doubt any state or county will drop their local tax and therefore our sales tax will have a universal bump across the entire United Sates.

3) increasing taxes hurts the economy, as it reduces the amount of money people have to spend on actual products. The economy started to go down the tubes when everyone realized that they couldn't pay their mortgage or credit card bills. More tax would just make economic recovery harder, as people who are living on the edge of their income won't be able to pay their bills any more.

4) Obama should have moved to Europe. He seems to want everything we do to match what they do. But hey, Americans wanted change!! just not these changes...

Also, I'll throw this in here - Until 2010, there had never been a federal sales tax in the United States; however, the 2010 health care reform law now imposes a 10% federal sales tax on indoor tanning services.

Sales taxes hurt the poor the most, yet Obama is trying to increase these taxes everywhere. Who we really should have elected into government was someone who actually wanted to reduce the size of the government, get out of the health industries way (remove state border restrictions), reduce taxes, and improve everyone's lives (in other words, get out of them) all at the same time.