VAT: Will the U.S. Adopt a Value-Added Tax?

[captain morgan]

A bad thing? Someone was mentioning earlier government cutting back on waste. Simultaneous programs which essentially do the same thing (collect tax revenues) would be a part of that.

... And here I thought that a carbon tax was supposed to be directed at green energy alts

 

[petros]

I've heard Hitler isn't really dead and running al Quaeda from a secret hideout in Brazil.

Which al Qaeda the allied one or the bad one?

 

[SLM]

... And here I thought that a carbon tax was supposed to be directed at green energy alts

Oh sure. Let's keep adding government programs. Eventually we will run out of tax to collect. Probably before we run out of crude, lol.

 

[Cannuck]

Don't know why a VAT shouldn't be brought in. It worked well for Canada. The FTA and the GST, while divisive at the time, set the wheels in motion for our economic strength today. Mulroney was/is highly underrated.

 

[petros]

Don't know why a VAT shouldn't be brought in. It worked well for Canada. The FTA and the GST, while divisive at the time, set the wheels in motion for our economic strength today. Mulroney was/is highly underrated.

The best exmple of a VAT being a success is New Zealand. It's where the VAT was born. Mulroney copied it.