... and send it sailing back across the deep blue sea.
Kill the VAT Tax!
Or the VAT Kills the FairTax!
FairTax Mama to Members of Congress:
Join the Anti-VAT Tax Caucus… or Else!
Dear FairTax,
Stand by for one nasty tax increase idea -- there has been talk in Washington of the “need” for a European-style Value-Added Tax, or VAT Tax.
Let’s make this clear right now: if the VAT Tax is adopted, the FairTax is dead. A VAT has none of the protections of the FairTax for the middle class and poor. It is a secret, hidden tax which the politicians could increase at any time and we would never know. The VAT is a new, added tax; unlike the FairTax, the VAT does not eliminate or even reduce any other tax. It is a very bad form of consumption tax that would drive up the cost of living and make the politicians and special interests even more powerful! Once a VAT is in place, we could never convince the American people to adopt the FairTax. Take your stand right here, right now with your FairTax organization against the proposed new European-style VAT Tax!
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Why is the VAT Tax the Worst Possible Kind of Tax?
Here is how a Value-Added Tax works for the politicians and powerful special interests and against American Taxpayers:
- A tax is added to the cost of every product made in America, as it is produced, at every level of production. So in making a car, the iron ore has a VAT tax added, the steel mill adds a VAT tax. Then the car company adds a VAT tax. And finally the dealer adds a VAT tax and all of this is added to price you pay for your car!
- Now here is the part the politicians really like: you do not see the value added tax! The VAT tax is the perfect politician’s tax. Every time the politicians want to spend, and spend and spend some more, they increase the hidden VAT tax…"just a little." You would never have any idea how much the VAT tax adds to your cost of living!
In Europe the Value-Added Tax started very low. Then, like all taxes, it was increased "just a little." Then a little more… and now the European VAT adds 18% on average more to the cost of everything!
Would the VAT replace some other tax? Of course not! The VAT would hit us after all the taxes and other payroll deductions have already been taken from us. The proposed new European-style Value-Added Tax on all Americans would be in addition to all those taxes we already pay!
Would the VAT reduce any other tax? Of course not! All the taxes - income taxes, death taxes, alternative minimum tax, capital gains taxes, excise taxes, Social Security taxes, employment taxes, the marriage penalty - they will all still be there grabbing at every dime, every penny, every dollar that moves and many that stand still!
The only money that does not get taxed is that which has been taken out of the United States, or where some special interest has made a deal with the power brokers in Congress to avoid taxes.
Do you ever think of moving money out of the United States? NO!
Do you ever get one thin dime of tax relief from the special deals recorded in the 70,320 pages of the current tax code? NO!
Why not? Because the politicians in charge do not care about honest, hard working Americans. The Special Interest lobbyists earn over $1,500,000,000.00 every year—that is 1 Billion, 500 Million dollars a year from banks, insurance companies and others to cut sweet special deals that result in lower taxes for them, and higher taxes for ordinary Americans!
That is why those 70,320 pages of tax code increases by an average of five pages a day, every day, 365 days a year… and not one page, not one paragraph, not one sentence, not even a word for you or any other typical honest American taxpayer. So take action now!
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But of course you know there are those who oppose the FairTax. The special interest lobbyists make $1,500,000,000.00 a year just getting the power brokers to add more pages to the tax code which is already 70,320 pages long. The Members of Congress who serve on the important tax-writing committees very much enjoy all the attention they get from the rich and powerful, the junkets and the sheer power that comes with being able to give wealthy people--along with banks and other financial institutions--huge tax breaks.
These are powerful people who will not give up their power or their big incomes easily. But we can do it. It is in your hands right now. I have signed and returned the Anti-VAT Tax Action Demand, I hope you will too.
Of course drug dealers, black marketers, illegal aliens and tax lobbyists are not going to like the FairTax either.
So, it is so urgent that you take action right here and right now!
Thank you for your support! We can beat the VAT, we will pass the FairTax—and that is a promise!
Urgently yours,
Ken Hoagland
Chairman, FairTax National Victory Campaign
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