Good point. my state collects revenue from income taxes and less on sales taxes, while yours collects all revenues from sales taxes andnone on income tax.
Sales taxes, itself, is tax on tax, as money spent has already been income taxed.
Instead of getting rid of our deductions, you folks should be looking to add deductions of your sales taxes. In fact, we really should be getting rid of income tax all together.
www.fairtax.org
in case you don't already know about HR25