Here is Media Matters exposing the current right wing straw man and talking point: The VAT. The interesting thing will be to see who picks up, and begins to spread these new Fox News inpired talking points.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004210054
In recent weeks, media conservatives have been fearmongering about the Obama administration supposedly implementing a Value Added Tax (or VAT). For example, George Will absurdly claimed that the Obama administration has "deliberately aggravated" the financial crisis in order to get a VAT implemented. Discussing rumors that low earners could get VAT rebates, Gretchen Carlson asked if such a tax would spark "a revolution."
Of course, Glenn Beck upped the fearmongering ante today. Discussing the International Monetary Fund's recommendation (this will be important later) that countries implement a financial activities tax on banks' gross profits, Beck unveiled an absurd new conspiracy theory:
BECK: We're gonna talk about it tonight. Again the government, the IMF is starting to push everything up to a glob -- they're now talking about a global V-A-T tax. Do you have any concept of the amount of money a global tax would -- would create? Who's getting that money? The IMF? Name the IMF. Name the Fed. Name the people who are involved in the Fed. You can't. It's secret.
You're going to collect a global tax and give it to the IMF? Do you know what kind of prison is built for every free man on the planet with that kind of money? My gosh. They're pushing it up. I told you they would do this, they're gonna push it up to the globe. The answer, I said lies closest with you. Push it down, get it closer to you. I was wrong, push it to you. You. You make the difference in your own life.
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