by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2010 | Bailouts, Blogs, Uncategorized, VAT
Only in the artificial bubble of Washington do you find people who are willing to make preposterous statements such as those contained in this David Ignatius column. He writes that we should adopt a value-added tax to avoid a Greek-style fiscal crisis, appararently...
by Dan Mitchell | May 3, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation, Uncategorized, VAT
A former Governor of Delaware, Pete DuPont, explains that a value-added tax means bigger government and slower growth. This issue is very important since Obama clearly is trying to set the stage for imposing this European-style national sales tax in the United...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, VAT
His article doesn’t completely slam the door on a value-added tax, but Robert Samuleson’s piece in the Washington Post does highlight some of the very serious problems with a VAT – including more government spending, burdens on families, additional...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Apr 19, 2010 | Taxation, VAT
Last Thursday, the Senate took a vote on a non-binding “sense of the Senate” resolution concerning a Value Added Tax. The result was an 85-13 victory for the anti-VAT side. The roll call can be found here. The statement of purpose read as follows: Expressing the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
Caroline Baum of Bloomberg has a good column against the value-added tax, in part because she quotes me, but more so because she effectively explains that a national sales tax like the VAT would be an add-on tax that would finance much bigger government: As Americans...
