{"id":4910,"date":"2010-04-22T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2010-04-22T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:23:20","slug":"white-house-confused-over-whether-obama-likes-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4910\/white-house-confused-over-whether-obama-likes-vat\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Confused Over Whether Obama Likes VAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel isn\u2019t the only senior administration official who\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/19\/AR2010021904298.html \" target=\"_blank\">on uncertain terms with President Obama<\/a>.\u00a0 In the span of a few minutes, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/domestic-taxes\/93577-gibbs-reiterates-white-house-not-considering-a-vat-\" target=\"_blank\">reminded reporters<\/a> that imposing a national value added tax (VAT) \u201cwasn\u2019t something that the president had under consideration,\u201d and a deputy of his reiterated that point after Obama appeared on CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is the president himself told CNBC that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/64529\" target=\"_blank\">the VAT is still on the table<\/a>.\u00a0 What to make of the press office\u2019s bookend statements denying the substance of the chief\u2019s own words?\u00a0 Exactly what it is: denying the truth that one of <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/566-taxes-and-economy-center \" target=\"_blank\">the most destructive taxes available<\/a> is being considered to pay for the explosion in government spending.\u00a0 We were warned \u2013 sort of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel isn\u2019t the only senior administration official who\u2019s on uncertain terms with President Obama.\u00a0 In the span of a few minutes, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reminded reporters that imposing a national value added tax (VAT) \u201cwasn\u2019t something that the president had under consideration,\u201d and a deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,181,360,245,44],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-robert-gibbs","tag-vat","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}