VAT Tax - You Aint Seen Nothin Yet

Obama derangement syndrome
Who can forget Charles Krauthammer's coinage of "Bush Derangement Syndrome"? No one, of course. That's the whole purpose of hegemony: embedding ideology so deeply you can never escape it. But anyone who clicks the link can see how utterly silly it was from the very beginning.  Just another hatchet job on Howard Dean, really.  Definitionally,  Krauthammer wrote: Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies,...

Krauthammer: Obamacare's next trick: the VAT
By Charles Krauthammer As the night follows the day, VAT follows Health-care reform. With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new Middle-class entitlement, a national Sales Tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is inevitable. We are now $8 trillion in Debt . The Congressional Budget Office projects that $12 trillion will be added over the next decade. Obamacare, when stripped of its budgetary gimmicks -- the unfunded $200 billion-plus "doctor fix," the double counting of Medicare...

Now That We Have European-Style Healthcare, is A European-Style Tax System Next?
Over at the Washington Post , The dean of the neocons Charles Krauthammer warns: Now that we have a big bad, European-style Socialized healthcare system, it's inevitable that our tax system will come to look more European as well. In order to finance our burgeoning Deficit -- the growth of which seems pretty indisputable -- Krauthammer expects to see a VAT (value-added tax) which, he says, would raise $1 trillion per decade for every 1% tax imposed. Importantly, he's not talking about a...

Passover (and Easter) Reading
You've read Elliott Abrams in the new issue on the myths of the peace process. You're alarmed by the Obama Administration's turn against Israel. But, with Passover and Easter upon us, you might want to reflect a little more about the meaning of Jewish history, Israel, and Judaism. Here are a few articles from the TWS archives I think you'll find worth re-reading: Charles Krauthammer: At Last, Zion David Gelernter:  On the Jewish Question: A conversation across generations...

FNC's Hume: Value-Added Tax Passage During Congressional Lame-Duck Session a Possibility
So we have a Health Care reform entitlement now, along with various unfunded liabilities, courtesy of the Federal Government. The next question is - how are we going to pay for all of it? Last week following the passage of Health Care legislation, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer predicted a value-added tax (or VAT) could be in the works , which is a consumption tax that is