Saturday, March 27, 2010

Charles Krauthammer : The Vat Cometh - Townhall.com

Charles Krauthammer : The Vat Cometh - Townhall.com

Another excellent piece from Charles Krauthammer.

We all now know that Obama is an inveterate liar and one of his sweetest sounding lies during the campaign was that taxes for middle America would not go up. Of course, they have gone up and before his term ends he will try to raise them further. That's what liberal-progressive-socialist Democrats do: Tax and Spend. It will all be because of Bush, you see, because that's another thing that liberal-progressive-socialist Democrats do: blame others for their own failed handiwork. The truth of the matter is quite different, however, as when you look objectively back at the spending of the Bush Administration you see that while the Republicans were acting a lot like traditional Democrats in spending--without the socialism, of course--the real spending problems didn't come until the liberal-progressive-socialist Democrats took control of both houses of Congress. That's when the real problem started. This is not to excuse the Republicans for they had strayed far from their conservative principles. Perhaps this was caused by the too close association with the Democrats? Or possibly it was because they had been in Washington, DC, for far too long and had forgotten that they were there to represent We the People rather than the special interests who funded their election campaigns.

Now with a Socialist-in-everything-but-name President, and "progressive" Democrats in control of the Congress what lies ahead for America, at least the best we can hope for, is a European-style socialism where the state take control of individual lives from cradle to grave. Obama and his minions are focused on destroying the America that was great and replacing it with a socialist/marxist state controlled by the ruling elite. To do that they need to institute more taxation because as Margaret Thatcher once said, "Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money." The VAT is one they believe they can sell to We the People by playing the old "class warfare" game of equalizing everyone (but themselves) through taxation. It is a way to keep from running out of other people's money...at least so soon.

Of course, Obama and his comrades will have to get this past We the People before it can be done.  And we have November 2010 in which we can start applying the brakes.  And apply them we will.

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