Pre-empt On Any VAT Tax Suggestion

SEE HERE The VAT tax is a license to pillage and plunder and blame someone else. It imposes hidden taxes on everything and gives the looters (ur politicians) a license to blame the ____ (enter enemy of choice -- market, big corporations, citizen laziness ... you name it) but some other guy when in fact it is government all the time. No VAT tax, no way, no how!