Here Comes the VAT

Today President Obama hinted that he's be open to the Value-Added Tax.

This will be proposed not as a substitute for federal income taxes (an idea I'm cool with), but as an additional tax. It will affect manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, and the public at large. It will do massive harm to an already fragile economy. It will destroy job growth and put more people in harm's way (economically-speaking, of course).

And Obama and the Democrat Party wouldn't have it any other way. Impose more taxes, create more economic problems. Create more economic problems, engender dependency. Engender dependency, and you've conjured up a perfect scenario to grab power.

Which is something Obama does as well as any politician since Hitler (and no, I'm not calling Obama a Nazi).