User Tax Options

[*Steven*]

An increased tax on everything we buy, with the removal of the income taxes. This way the less you spend/buy, the less you're taxed. Also, people like Bill Gates who make say 200,000$ a year on their salary can't avoid the taxes any more.

Go.

[ersatz]

Then outlaw companies doing that. It's silly, anyway.

If you tax goods more, that applies the burden more to the poor. If a poor person and a rich person both want an iPod, and you tax it more, making the total price like, $300 as opposed to $250 (hypothetical), that's no big deal for the rich person, but for that poor person, that $50 more in taxes is a large burden. Sales tax accounts for like $3-4 on every purchase I make. As it is now, it already adds up to a lot for me, and it hurts. But someone who makes more money than me isn't going to care about that small amount.

[kryogenix]

Then outlaw companies doing that. It's silly, anyway.

If you tax goods more, that applies the burden more to the poor. If a poor person and a rich person both want an iPod, and you tax it more, making the total price like, $300 as opposed to $250 (hypothetical), that's no big deal for the rich person, but for that poor person, that $50 more in taxes is a large burden. Sales tax accounts for like $3-4 on every purchase I make. As it is now, it already adds up to a lot for me, and it hurts. But someone who makes more money than me isn't going to care about that small amount.

FairTax, one example of a consumption tax scheme, grants a rebate to poor people, which makes the tax progressive.