Obamacare's next trick: the VAT

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Author(s) Charles Krauthammer
Source The Washington Post
Date March 26, 2010
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502406.html
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Quotes-start.png "Sure, Social Security can be trimmed by raising the retirement age, introducing means testing and changing the indexing formula from wage growth to price inflation. But this won't be nearly enough. As Obama has repeatedly insisted, the real money is in health-care costs -- which are locked in place by the new Obamacare mandates. That's where the value-added tax comes in." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.