re: #605 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Kilgore? You seen this?

Value Added Tax is still on the table, sayeth President Obama.

Funny how if you read past the headline, the story actually says:

“I know that there’s been a lot of talk around town lately about the value-added tax. That is something that has worked for some countries. It’s something that would be novel for the United States.”

“And before, you know, I start saying ‘this makes sense or that makes sense,’ I want to get a better picture of what our options are,” Obama said.
He said his first priority “is to figure out how can we reduce wasteful spending so that, you know, we have a baseline of the core services that we need and the government should provide. And then we decide how do we pay for that.”

I guess the headline is technically accurate, but it sounds pretty non-committal to me.