If the president got his way, we've tax maximized just to cover the shortfall in the Medicare trust fund. Where do you get the money? I will lay a marker down today. By the end of this decade, this country will have A VAT tax, a value added tax, just like the rest of the industrialized world. just like Europe, just like everyone else. And at that moment, the working middle class, that hard working middle class will be poor. And that's the scam that's going on because that's where the money is. (08:24–08:35)
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