Most countries in Europe that use value added tax are doing well. Value added tax is an efficient way to fund government that makes it much more difficult for the underground cash economy. This is a severe problem in Puerto Rico and a properly administrated value added tax in place of all or a good portion of the island tax would have solved a number of problems. A value added tax is something the U.S. should give serious consideration to."New Jersey, Chicago and Detroit are not very apt parallels."
explain.
"They had a chance to get tax evasion under control (Average physician reported income there is something like $17,000!!!) by adopting the value added tax,"
the value added tax is evaded everywhere. it is a social engineering tool used by lefties in Europe to further their agenda
As you ask for them. The information is free, by the way. I don't charge for it. Fell free to take notes. You might want to compare the amounts not collected via a conventional income tax versus the amounts not collected by value added tax before you make up your already-made-up mind.