There was much ado about all the tax cutting in Paul Ryan's budget, oddly enough nobody is talking about the huge tax increase in it: the value added tax (VAT) or as he calls it the business consumption tax (to deceive who is actually going to pay for it).
The VAT is essentially a national sales tax, and like the national sales tax it is the end consumer that pays for it. The VAT is just a more efficient version of the sales tax since it creates a strong incentive for businesses to collect from the consumer.
The VAT, like any sales tax, is extremely regressive since the brunt of it hits the middle class and poor. So it is not like conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce don't like taxes, it's just that they don't like progressive taxes. They are more than happy to tax people who have trouble making ends meet as it is.
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