Comments on: Reject the Value-Added Tax, Rein in Spending Instead http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Morning Bell: Can We Avoid Becoming Europe? | Step Down Obama http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-111064 Morning Bell: Can We Avoid Becoming Europe? | Step Down Obama Sun, 16 May 2010 15:15:56 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-111064 [...] and whether we want to move towards a European-style welfare state.”There is another way. Simply bringing real federal spending back to the inflation adjusted $21,000 per household average .... Even returning spending to the pre-recession level of 20 percent of GDP would eliminate two-thirds [...] [...] and whether we want to move towards a European-style welfare state.”There is another way. Simply bringing real federal spending back to the inflation adjusted $21,000 per household average …. Even returning spending to the pre-recession level of 20 percent of GDP would eliminate two-thirds [...]

]]> By: Morning Bell: How the Left Really Plans to Pay for Obamacare | Step Down Obama http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-104181 Morning Bell: How the Left Really Plans to Pay for Obamacare | Step Down Obama Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:34:01 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-104181 [...] a financial crisis. But low revenues are not the problem. Spending is. Heritage fellow Brian Riedl explains:Real federal spending remained steady at $21,000 per household throughout the 1980s and 1990s, [...] [...] a financial crisis. But low revenues are not the problem. Spending is. Heritage fellow Brian Riedl explains:Real federal spending remained steady at $21,000 per household throughout the 1980s and 1990s, [...]

]]> By: How the Left Really Plans to Pay for Obamacare | Fix Health Care Policy http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-104000 How the Left Really Plans to Pay for Obamacare | Fix Health Care Policy Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:06:36 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-104000 [...] a financial crisis. But low revenues are not the problem. Spending is. Heritage fellow Brian Riedl explains: “Real federal spending remained steady at $21,000 per household throughout the 1980s and [...] [...] a financial crisis. But low revenues are not the problem. Spending is. Heritage fellow Brian Riedl explains: “Real federal spending remained steady at $21,000 per household throughout the 1980s and [...]

]]> By: Morning Bell: How the Left Really Plans to Pay for Obamacare | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-103958 Morning Bell: How the Left Really Plans to Pay for Obamacare | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:33:30 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-103958 [...] a financial crisis. But low revenues are not the problem. Spending is. Heritage fellow Brian Riedl explains:Real federal spending remained steady at $21,000 per household throughout the 1980s and 1990s, [...] [...] a financial crisis. But low revenues are not the problem. Spending is. Heritage fellow Brian Riedl explains:Real federal spending remained steady at $21,000 per household throughout the 1980s and 1990s, [...]

]]> By: race42008.com » Blog Archive » How To Win http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-80068 race42008.com » Blog Archive » How To Win Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:42:53 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-80068 [...] Promise to cut the “low-hanging fruit” in ineffective and unused government funds and programs, and purely wasteful funds. Take a [...] [...] Promise to cut the “low-hanging fruit” in ineffective and unused government funds and programs, and purely wasteful funds. Take a [...]

]]> By: John98 http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-62982 John98 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:16:07 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-62982 And the online catalog, in German or English, mystified me. , And the online catalog, in German or English, mystified me. ,

]]> By: Reject the Value-Added Tax, Rein in Spending Instead | India Updates http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-45877 Reject the Value-Added Tax, Rein in Spending Instead | India Updates Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:29:07 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-45877 [...] is the original post: Reject the Value-Added Tax, Rein in Spending Instead Share and [...] [...] is the original post: Reject the Value-Added Tax, Rein in Spending Instead Share and [...]

]]> By: Sylvia Smart http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-34952 Sylvia Smart Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:07:50 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-34952 1. Congressional term limits! The congressional judicial committee will be abolished, and Senators will be randomly computer selected to process each judicial nomination for confirmation or rejection - equal number of senators from each political party will be selected for the committee. 2. Abolish the IRS and institute a flat federal sales tax across the board (15% Federal & 15% State) - no other taxes - no loopholes - no special exemptions! Imported products will be taxed at prohibitive levels. 3. Move everything that isn't a legitimate Federal issue back to State jurisdiction. Get the Feds out of our faces and out of our wallets. 4. Schedule Congressional Sessions in DC to be held in July and August - make their work day a mandatory 8 hours per day with Marines posted outside their offices to monitor/record every single person who comes and goes and to post their credentials. They stay put in DC until the session is ended and then they go home to work for their State. No coalitions between Senators will be allowed. 5. The Federal government will disengage from private industry. They will disengage from all Union support and affiliation and will be prohibited from interfering in the free-market, right to work process. 6. Foreign ownership of TV, Radio, communication systems, Satellite systems, newspapers, and publishing companies and news media will be illegal. Any percentage of ownership will be illegal. 7. All legitimate votes will be counted in all elections. If the votes cannot be properly counted the election will be declared null and void. Each candidate will be provided the exact same amount of money, airtime, and access to TV/radio/print media coverage. NO one will ever be able to buy an election again. 1. Congressional term limits! The congressional judicial committee will be abolished, and Senators will be randomly computer selected to process each judicial nomination for confirmation or rejection – equal number of senators from each political party will be selected for the committee.

2. Abolish the IRS and institute a flat federal sales tax across the board (15% Federal & 15% State) – no other taxes – no loopholes – no special exemptions! Imported products will be taxed at prohibitive levels.

3. Move everything that isn't a legitimate Federal issue back to State jurisdiction. Get the Feds out of our faces and out of our wallets.

4. Schedule Congressional Sessions in DC to be held in July and August – make their work day a mandatory 8 hours per day with Marines posted outside their offices to monitor/record every single person who comes and goes and to post their credentials. They stay put in DC until the session is ended and then they go home to work for their State. No coalitions between Senators will be allowed.

5. The Federal government will disengage from private industry. They will disengage from all Union support and affiliation and will be prohibited from interfering in the free-market, right to work process.

6. Foreign ownership of TV, Radio, communication systems, Satellite systems, newspapers, and publishing companies and news media will be illegal. Any percentage of ownership will be illegal.

7. All legitimate votes will be counted in all elections. If the votes cannot be properly counted the election will be declared null and void. Each candidate will be provided the exact same amount of money, airtime, and access to TV/radio/print media coverage. NO one will ever be able to buy an election again.

]]> By: Richard Bulgarelli http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-34646 Richard Bulgarelli Fri, 29 May 2009 18:49:22 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-34646 What people don't realize about a VAT is that it is put on every producer who will then raise their prices to cover it. The last person in the chain, the consumer, will end up paying their portion and every other producers portion that is in the product chain through increased product or service prices. A VAT is the most regressive tax a consumer can pay. This will be on top of the income tax, not a replacement. What people don't realize about a VAT is that it is put on every producer who will then raise their prices to cover it. The last person in the chain, the consumer, will end up paying their portion and every other producers portion that is in the product chain through increased product or service prices. A VAT is the most regressive tax a consumer can pay. This will be on top of the income tax, not a replacement.

]]> By: Normca http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/27/reject-the-value-added-tax-rein-in-spending-instead/#comment-34641 Normca Fri, 29 May 2009 17:29:16 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=7413#comment-34641 Break up the big insurance and banks ? Government should stay out of private business ? Which one is it ? Both insurance and banks did fine until the government required loans to people who could not afford them, and then dismissed the need to regulate Fannie and Freddie [who received money from chairmen of committees]. Losers failed and went out of business. So why interfere ? For one, if the democrats and Republicans did not require the bad loans [sub prime] this crisis would not exist. Banks and insurers are already regulated. I agree though, if they make bad decisions, let them fail [but if the government imposes requirements that increase the risk, then government needs to pay the the losses - yes with tax payer money]. Break up the big insurance and banks ? Government should stay out of private business ? Which one is it ? Both insurance and banks did fine until the government required loans to people who could not afford them, and then dismissed the need to regulate Fannie and Freddie [who received money from chairmen of committees]. Losers failed and went out of business. So why interfere ? For one, if the democrats and Republicans did not require the bad loans [sub prime] this crisis would not exist. Banks and insurers are already regulated. I agree though, if they make bad decisions, let them fail [but if the government imposes requirements that increase the risk, then government needs to pay the the losses - yes with tax payer money].

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