"All sales taxes are regressive taxes. It only serves to make the middle class pay a higher portion of their wages in taxes than all other groups"
No they are not. You spend less, you pay less taxes. You have a choice, unlike with the income taxes.
If you make $200,000 and buy only $20,000 in goods, then only 10% of your earnings are taxed. If another guy makes $20,000 and spends $20,000, 100% of his earnings are taxed.
Please oh please tell me how that is NOT regressive.
You spend less, you pay less taxes.
Wonderful way to run the economy into the ground, friend. Give consumers disincentives to make purchases. Which Einstein thought that economic plan up, hm?
And let's not forget the loopholes in which select groups form co-ops and skirt their share of the tax entirely?
Sorry...I ain't buying it. A flat tax on income is the only way to go.