Drums are beating in Washington for VAT in addition to the stupidus stimulus taxes, health care taxes, energy taxes, and other taxes President Obama has imposed and wants to impose on hard-pressed taxpayers. A VAT puts big spenders on steroids. It generates lots of revenue, and because this tax is substantially hidden from consumers, there's less political resistance to it.
Supposedly VAT is a magic elixir for curing budget deficits and excessive debt. Quack remedy would be more like it. If it worked, you'd observe that countries with a VAT had budget surpluses and no debt problems. But every country that has a VAT is plagued with budget deficits and excessive debt. By disrupting the economy, VAT-induced spending makes it more difficult to handle budget deficits and debt. The last thing Uncle Sam needs is a VAT.
President Obama and Congressional Democrats have proposed a series of tax hikes on the American people to pay their massive new government spending. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who heads up a presidential tax reform commission, asserts a VAT is a good idea! But the US Senate passed the antivat resolution: It is the sense of the Senate that the Value Added Tax is a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America's economic recovery.
VAT, aka kleptocrats' grab, is a regressive tax; the poor pay higher percentage of their income. Revenues from VAT are much lower than expected, because they are difficult and costly to administer and collect. Since any double-digit VAT leads many venitists to underground economy, most vatstruck Fourthreichians evade VAT! As a matter of fact, if you are a real patriot, you should boycott shops that charge abominable VAT! VAT is the cacothanasia of Fourth Reich! Vatdodging is heroism!
Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out the imposition of a VAT is the precursor to bigger government. It is simply too easy for kleptocrats to raise a tax that is hidden from citizens. VAT is embedded in the final cost of the goods sold, and is hidden to the consumer. VAT is applied at every stage of consumption, from wholesale to retail. It is passed along until it literally becomes as much an inherent and cloaked component in the price as transportation or raw materials. As a result, countries that have adopted VAT have been sorely tempted to raise the rate over time.
When VATs started out in Europe in the 1960s, they were small, usually less than 5%. Today, the average VAT rate in Europe is 20%. If your country wants to join the European Union, you have to have a minimum VAT rate of 15% so that people won't take retail shopping vacations in your cities. Norway, Denmark, and Sweden win the dubious award of having the world's highest VAT rate at 25%. This floor and ceiling of VAT prices is a clear violation of antitrust laws, price fixing, pure and simple!
Fourth Reich(EU) forced the hateful VAT on Greece in 1987 and is the most disgusting indirect tax. Greeks are at war against their government over the abominable 23% VAT. Vatmonger Greek government harasses Greeks by pressuring them to demand receipts when they buy products. Greeks who cannot gather many receipts are penalized with more taxes! Venitis asserts that transforming citizens to VAT enforcers is disgusting, undignified, and against basic human freedoms. President Van Rompuy should call vatmonger PM Papandreou on the carpet now.
Papandreou, who chokes all Greeks with VAT, was my roommate of Amherst College of Massachusetts. Venitis points out Graecokleptocrats continue to spend like there is no tomorrow. Premier George Papandreou, who covers up all Graecokleptocrats, is the neplusultra of spending! He is a junket junky, has a cabinet of fifty ministers, and has thirty personal consultants. For such a small country, Papandreou does not need more than five ministers and one personal consultant.
Venitis muses that Greek Ministry of Economy is George Orwells' Ministry of Plenty or Miniplenty in Newspeak. Miniplenty imposes heavy taxation, especially VAT, overregualtion, heavy antitrust, and controls prices, salaries, and domestic production. Miniplenty publishes false claims of having raised the standard of living in dystopia, when it has, in fact, reduced production and increased misery. Miniplenty's concocted-statistics are Trojan horses sent to Brussels, in order to get bailouts and avoid penalties.
Lysistrata has convinced Greek women to not give birth to more vatstrucks! Yes, Greek women have stopped producing babies until abominable VAT is abolished! This is the second strike organized by Lysistrata. The original strike organized by Lysistrata was the sex refusal until the war is over. Now women will give sex, but no babies! If vatmonger Graecokleptocrats want to have offspring, they must abolish VAT, pure and simple!
Vatstrucks are feeling a growing panic as they watch their constitutional republic descend into a vatmonger republic. Mahatma Gandhi's said we should be the change we want to see. Gandhi also said that civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless and corrupt. Vatsruckss instinctively understand this which is why grassroots of resistance to VAT are leading to a Gandhi-style civil disobedience movement powerful enough to undo this monstrosity.
Most Herculean tasks of Global Tax Revolt begin with Hercules getting orders from an email with photos of vatmongers and information which explains the war against VAT. The email always begins with "Good Morning Hercules", explains the situation, and ends with "Your mission, should you decide to accept it", with a brief explanation of the goal of the mission against VAT, along with a reminder that "as always, should you or any of your force be caught or killed, Baz will disavow any knowledge of your actions". At the end of the email's instructions, Hercules is notified this email address will stop to exist.
Basil Venitis asserts that VAT is a trademark of slavery and a destruction power of myriad watts. VAT is the main culprit of the Fourthreichian financial meltdown. The Fourthreichian taxation is based on the VAT monstrosity against poor people! The most unfair tax is VAT, the calamity of Fourth Reich(EU); that's why vatbuster Venitis urges all Fourthreichians to evade this tax of misery as much as possible! Fourthreichians are yoked with a 15-25% VAT, value added tax. In Canada, VAT is only 5%. The burden of VAT falls on final consumers of products. Refusing to pay abominable VAT is a heroic act. Vatwar is here to stay until VAT is abolished. Vatdodgers are heroes.
In Fourth Reich(EU), a small VAT was first enacted in 1967. At that time, Fourth Reich and the United States both confiscated about $0.27 out of every dollar of national income. Since the introduction of the VAT in Fourth Reich, that continent's average tax take has gone from 27% to 41% of GDP, nearly a 50% increase in just four decades. There is currently a minimum VAT rate requirement of 15% to be a member of Fourth Reich, and an average VAT rate of 20%. Meanwhile, the vatless United States still taxes at about the same level as it did in 1967. The experience of Fourth Reich should teach us that the imposition of a VAT is too often the precursor to bigger government. It is simply too easy for politicians to raise a tax that is hidden from citizens.
VAT and kleptocracy are two good reasons to secede from Fourth Reich(EU) now. Vatstruck Fourthreichians are looking for a Moses to liberate them from the yoke of Brussels. They have to do it now, before a new imposed treaty between Eurokleptocrats tie their hands forever. Californians and Texans want to secede from USA, but Uncle Sam does not allow it. The same thing might happen with Britons and Greeks. Infinite infinitesimal amendments to treaties might accumulate over time, leading to huge changes of original intent, enslaving all Fourthreichians to antivenitist Brussels forever!
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