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justemptypockets Wrote: Feb 17, 2013 3:44 PM
Oh, good grief! Wherever did you get the idea that the current regime cares a gnat's behind about Constitutional authority?
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Corbett_ Wrote: Feb 14, 2013 2:06 PM
The sales tax and VAT are excise taxes. They are not direct taxes. They are allowed by the Constitution. Some of the first taxes the US government levied were excise taxes on whiskey.
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Ronald494 Wrote: Feb 15, 2013 9:55 AM
What does it matter what you call it. Judge Roberts will assert that congress has the right to call anything a tax and impose it.
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The value-added tax is a pernicious levy.
It’s basically a hidden form of national sales tax, imposed every time a transaction occurs at any stage of the production process.
But what irks me about the VAT is not its design (indeed, it shares some key characteristics with the flat tax). What gets me agitated about the VAT is the fact that politicians always seem to treat the tax as a way of financing a larger burden of government spending.
That’s certainly what we’ve seen in Europe, both when the VAT was first implemented beginning about 45 years ago...
The Great TCI Anti-VAT Mutiny of 2013