>Are you saying there's an argument to be made that VAT is not regressive?
to which Max Sawicky replied:
>yup
Don't be coy, Max. What is it? I seem to remember Bob Pollin citing you (back when he was advising Jerry Brown in '92) as saying that a VAT could finance a generous welfare state, and the combined tax and spending effects would be progressively redistributive. Is there more to it than that?
Doug