Image via WikipediaI have listened to Jim Blasingame's interview (Is a VAT tax in the future for the United States?) with Brian M. Carney and I plan to listen to the following podcasts in the near future:
- Congratulations, it's Tax Freedom Day with Peter Sepp and Jim Blasingame.
- Why a VAT is a bad idea for America by Jim Blasingame.
- Tax Freedom Day 2010 by Kail Padgitt, Ph.D.
In the news: U.S. Consumption Tax Is Tempting VAT of Poison by Caroline Baum.
Congratulations! You’ve just finished working for the government. April 9 was Tax Freedom Day, the day on which Americans have earned enough to pay their federal, state and local taxes, as calculated by the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan tax research group in Washington.
Enjoy it while it lasts. As Americans awake to the 2009 tax-filing deadline today, they can look forward to working longer and harder for the government in the future -- at least the dwindling share that pays individual income taxes.
Enter the VAT, or value-added tax, a whole new source of revenue for the government. The VAT, a fixture in Europe for decades, is a broad-based consumption tax levied at each stage of production on the “value added,” as the name implies. (Business Week, 04/15/10.)
From my post, QUIPTOON FOR TAX DAY (4/11/09):
John Cox Art.
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -- Winston Churchill. (QuoteDB.com)
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