Senate Votes NO on VAT-Value Added Tax Amendment

While the Obama administration is running up it's flag pole and testing the waters on the VAT-Value Added Tax, the Senate votes on a non-binding amendment to send a message to the administration and the American people as a legislative body, it thinks the VAT-Value Added Tax is a bad idea and will only further hurt our economy.

The VAT Tax adds taxes on our current broken tax system and does nothing to correct it but lines the pockets of the government with more to spend. The word "ADDED" is just that, it 'adds to'. I say, it 'piles on'. With spending out of control, the VAT piles on and on and on.

Here are the Nays and Not voting votes:

NAYs ---13
Akaka (D-HI) Bingaman (D-NM) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Cardin (D-MD)	Dorgan (D-ND) Kaufman (D-DE) Levin (D-MI) Reed (D-RI) Udall (D-NM)	Voinovich (R-OH) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI)

Not Voting - 2
Nelson (D-FL)	Warner (D-VA)

Read the complete voting record who went on the record and voted yea and nay by columnist Jamie Dupree's article: "Value Added Tax" http://blogs.ajc.com/jamie-dupree-washington-insider/2010/04/20/val...