{"id":3164,"date":"2010-04-19T01:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2010-04-19T01:02:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T05:02:40","slug":"vat-tax-what-is-it-who-voted-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/04\/19\/vat-tax-what-is-it-who-voted-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"VAT Tax &#8211; What is it, who voted for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13 Senators voted for the implementation of a Value Added Tax or &#8220;VAT&#8221; on Thursday, just as millions of Americans were out protesting too many taxes. <\/p>\n<p>THIRTEEN Senators voted for this huge tax increase. One of them, a Republican. <\/p>\n<p>They are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Daniel Akaka [D, HI], Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM], Sen. Sherrod Brown<br \/>\n[D, OH], Sen. Robert Byrd [D, WV], Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD], Sen. Byron<br \/>\nDorgan [D, ND], Sen. Edward Kaufman [D, DE], Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI], Sen.<br \/>\nJohn Reed [D, RI], Sen. Tom Udall [D, NM], Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA], Sen.<br \/>\nSheldon Whitehouse [D, RI], Sen. George Voinovich [R, OH]<\/p>\n<p>Their contact forms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/akaka.senate.gov\/email-senator-akaka.cfm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/contact\/types\/email-website.cfm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/brown.senate.gov\/contact\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/byrd.senate.gov\/\/contacts\/index.cfm?ID=54<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/cardin.senate.gov\/contact\/email.cfm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/dorgan.senate.gov\/contact\/contact_form.cfm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/kaufman.senate.gov\/services\/contact\/index.cfm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/levin.senate.gov\/contact\/send.cfm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/reed.senate.gov\/contact\/contact-share.cfm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\/?p=contact<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/webb.senate.gov\/contact.cfm<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wdn7qEplJV\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.senate.gov\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Contact&#8221; &#8212; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.senate.gov\/contact\/embed\/#?secret=FDXR0CE7H0#?secret=wdn7qEplJV\" data-secret=\"wdn7qEplJV\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/voinovich.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Value_added_tax\">What is a VAT?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Senators voted for the implementation of a Value Added Tax or &#8220;VAT&#8221; on Thursday, just as millions of Americans were out protesting too many taxes. THIRTEEN Senators voted for this huge tax increase. One of them, a Republican. They are&#8230; Sen. Daniel Akaka [D, HI], Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM], Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}