The Obama administration is desperately searching for ways to take more money away from you and use it to fund its dreams and schemes. After all, the painful truth that most people forget is that the government does not earn any money. Basically, there is only one way for the government to get money to spend, and that is to seize it from the private individuals who worked for and earned it. Since government is force, this isn't hard. You have producers and looters. Not hard to figure out which is which, is it?

When you think about it, one big difference between Republicans and Democrats is the manner in which they choose to loot, and the subtlety with which they operate. With all of the spending The Chosen one has generated, you just know that they're burning some midnight oil trying to figure out new methods of plunder. One particularly onus tax is gaining much favor ... the value-added or VAT tax. In fact, John Podesta says that some form of a VAT tax is "more plausible today that it ever has been."

Podesta says that a consumption tax would "create a balance" with other economies and could substantially effect competitiveness. Now, Podesta says that a VAT tax would be regressive but can be "balanced" by exempting certain products and "[supporting] low-wage workers." By "supporting" low-wage workers Podesta, of course, means more income transfer and welfare programs.

Let's wade through some of the rhetorical bull squeeze here, shall we?

Podesta calls the VAT a "consumption tax." When you really think about it, ALL taxes on business are consumption taxes. That would be business tax burdens are passed down to the ultimate consumer of the product or service taxed. Right now businesses and corporations pay federal income taxes, one-half of the Social Security taxes, unemployment taxes, worker's compensation taxes and a bunch more. These taxes are built into the price of whatever that corporation or business sells to its customers. Eventually all of these taxes are paid by the final consumer. All that Podesta (and Obama) are proposing is the addition of one more tax --- one more tax to roll down hill and nail the consumer at the end of the chain of production.

If this idea gains traction in Washington will you be ready? Will you be ready to duplicate the 9/12 DC tea party with a FairTax march on Washington. You know, and these political hacks know that there is a better plan out there. A TRUE consumption tax. Let every product and service reach the ultimate consumer carrying absolutely no tax component at all ... then charge an honest and open inclusive sales tax as the product goes from the marketplace to the final consumer.

It is beyond outrageous that Obama's dog washers would be considering this atrocity when a fully researched and vetted idea like the FairTax is out there. But we all know why the political class will fight the FairTax, don't we? The VAT would ADD to the power of the political class. When they get to sit up there and decide what will be taxed, and what will not be taxed; and to set the rates for those taxes ... now that's what power is all about. The FairTax, on the other hand, transfers that power to the people. The payment of taxes would be voluntary. You could chose to live at the sustenance level and pay no taxes at all to the federal government. You only pay taxes when you make the voluntary decision to expand your spending past that required to provide the basic necessities to your family. You're in control. Complete control And that's what makes the FairTax so frightening to the political class.

Watch this VAT nonsense, my friends. It is something that will not only take dollars out of your pocket; it is a tax you will truly come to hate. Just another wonderful change you can believe in.

Throughout this debate over healthcare, many Americans have argued that a mandate to purchase health insurance in unconstitutional. It looks like somebody in Washington finally woke up and took the message to the Joint Committee on Taxation. Senator John Ensign (a Republican from Nevada) asked the Committee's Chief of Staff, Thomas Barthold, about the penalty for not obtaining health insurance. Barthold came back with the following response:

People who fail to pay the $1,900 fee for not purchasing coverage under Obamacare would be charged with a misdemeanor, charged a penalty of up to $25,000 or face up to a year in jail.

Now remember, Barack Obama does NOT consider this mandate a tax. Just last weekend with George Stephanopoulos, Obama said, "The -- for us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase." Now we have already been through this asinine argument about auto insurance versus health insurance. It's a crock. But if the government has the ability to through you in jail over failure to purchase health insurance, that is a tax.

Even knowing this, Republican (RINO) Senator Olympia Snowe crossed the isle last week and voted with the Democrats to reject an amendment that would have eliminated this individual mandate.

Please ... you're not still driving around with an Obama-Biden bumper sticker on your car, are you? Have you no pride?

Can any of you understand how little I care that the F-bomb was dropped on SNL this weekend? Can we just get over it? First of all, the kids were in bed. Secondly, they hear this word every single F___ing day at school anyway.

Oh yeah, there's a bad word in this clip if you haven't figured that out yet. You have been warned.

Back in the 90s when news broke about Billy's affair with Monica Lewinsky, Hillary came up with this line about a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Remember that? All this was just a plot of the vast right-wing conspiracy to ruin her husband's presidency! Well it seems as though Barack Obama, too, is going to suffer at the hands of the evil right-wing conspirators. That is, according to Bill Clinton.

Clinton says that the right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on Barack Obama. He says that "their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail."

See, this is a typical Clinton way of thinking. When things start to go downhill, blame it all on the vast right-wing conspiracy!

Barack Obama can't get healthcare legislation passed, because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Barack Obama can't commit more troops to Afghanistan, because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Barack Obama can't stand up to Iran or Russia or Venezuela or North Korea, because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Barack Obama can't convince the American public that we must pass global warming legislation, because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Barack Obama can't stimulate our economy to create more jobs, because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Are you starting to understand how this works now, folks?

Over the weekend, Iran successfully test-fired short-range missiles. This news comes just days after we find out that Iran has an underground nuclear facility that was being secretly constructed. This also comes just days after the United Nations issued a firm warning that said, "We do not like this, but we will never do anything to stop it." What a joke. This also comes after our president, Barack Obama, stands up in front of the UN (including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and declares his dreams for a nuclear-free world. And ... this news comes just weeks after the United States decided to pull its plans to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe. One of the reasons cited was because Iran did not pose a serious threat.

You are following this, aren't you? Barack Obama cancels a project to install missile defense systems in Poland and The Czech Republic. Obama tells the world that he has determine that the Iranian threat is not quite so bad as was supposed. Days later we find that Iran has a second facility for the production of nuclear-grade plutonium soon to come on line. Then these maniacs start test firing missiles.

There ... do you feel safer now? Once again, and all together now ... elections have consequences. I know you're glad that the president looks like you. Big whoop. And you liked the word "change," especially when you added the "you can believe in" thing to the back. And Obama was so trim! So confident! So eloquent! Well, eloquent as long as he had a teleprompter in front of him. And he wrote such a wonderful book! Well, those parts that Bill Ayers didn't write, anyway.

Aren't you just so happy things have turned out so well?

Andrew Klavan's latest video explores the one group in the American melting pot that has consistently underperformed in terms of productivity, intelligence and moral behavior ...

Now who didn't see this one coming. Liberal Democrats want you to pay for the health care of people who are in this country illegally. Those people, by the way, are not "undocumented workers," they are illegal aliens and their presence here is a crime.

One more video for you to get the week started ... Kanye West interrupts Obama speech to a joint session of Congress.

Apparently French President Sarkozy isn't all that impressed with Barack Obama. God forbid the media frontbench should let us know.

The Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan has been shelved by the Obama administration.

Barack Obama wants government schools to cut their summer vacations short. Here come more tax dollars.

Here are some surprising statistics about the pay disparities between the government and the private sectors.

Here are 20 tips to improve your memory. I can't remember where they came from.

The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2%. And this is the generation that will be paying the tab for the current Democrats' dreams and schemes.

Over the next two years, Social Security will be paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes.

The federal government is weighing the idea of another round of bailouts for smaller banks that did not previously qualify.

So what eventually came out of the G20 summit last week? A whole lotta talk, back-patting, and empty promises.

Don't you just love the idea of raising taxes on the evil, disgusting, putrid rich? Well, let us know how that works out for you!

The Obama administration has freed three more detainees from Gitmo.

OK ... so she dropped the F Bomb on Saturday Night Live. Trust me, we have much more to worry about than this.

Your tax dollars at work ........

Turns out that the same government school in New Jersey that had its students singing "mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama" has had its share of issues in the past.

How did Al Gore end up with $529 million in taxpayer money? By backing a small car company and obtaining a government grant to build hybrid sports cars.

The Democrats managed to kill an amendment that would have imposed congressional oversight on some of Obama's czars.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi seems to be fascinated by the "tanned" Obamas.

Great Britain is going to create a network of ecological "motorways" that will allow animals to migrate when climate change affects their current habitats.

When Veterans saw someone trying to burn an American flag ... they took matters into their own hands.