 health care and the hidden tax  as the debate continues about the anticipated effects of the new health care bill and how it will impact each of us personally we all seem to be ignoring how we are going to pay for it we hear the diatribe from both sides of the aisle as they put forth their arguments on the positives and negatives of the plan if you put all of the extraneous information regarding the health care bill out of the argument it boils down to just a couple of basic issues is it constitutional to force everyone to have insurance and how are we going to pay for it the answer to the first part of the question will ultimately be decided in the courts the answer to the second part of the question is where the subtle deception on the part of the democrats takes place while the euphoria of the passage of the new entitlement lingers and people see that nothing consequential is happening to them yet the 2010 elections will be at hand the progressive democrats want you to believe there will be no negatives as a direct result of the new health care bill all they need you to do is get them reelected to office before they roll out their real plan once they are returned to office they can spring their postelection surprise on all of us they know they fudged the facts to get the congressional budget office to make it look like the bill would be paid for the truth is that speaker pelosi has planned all along to push through the new value added tax vat like they have in europe as she stated in october of last year somewhere along the way a valueadded tax plays into this of course we want to take down the healthcare cost that s one part of it the democrats know that the vat is a cash cow and it can generate vast amounts of money to fill the government coffers to help reduce the deficit that will be a result of the new health care bill you need to be aware of what the vat is and the negative impact it will have on your life the vat is an invisible consumption tax it embeds a tax within the cost of an item at each production stage of a products life cycle resulting in the hidden tax at each step as a result you will see drastic increases in the cost of the goods you consume everyday the value added tax is something that none of us can afford we must elect people this fall that will truly represent our interests in lansing and washington submitted for publication to the owosso independent the laingsburg independent the perry independent on april 6 2010 published in the owosso independent on april 26 2010 and the laingsburg independent the perry independent on april 11 2010  