“If you enact Obamacare, it follows as the night after the day that you have to have a VAT”. . . .

According to Last Best Hope at sayanythingblog.com:

 Krauthammer on the increasing talk of VAT:

“Well, here is the syllogism. If you enact Obamacare, it follows as the night after the day that you have to have a VAT, and the reason is if you legislate yourself, as we just have done, into European levels of entitlements, you are going to have European-level taxation — or you will end up with Greek levels of debt.

And the easier option, ultimately, is going to be the VAT. It’s not going to be today. It won’t even happen after the 2010 elections, but I assure you if Obama is re-elected it will all of a sudden be a big issue and a big proposal of Democrats.”

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