[xzins]

I am firmly convinced that any income tax will always be unfair, unethical, and a springboard to socialism.

I’m equally convinced that any nation could easily survive with only a 5-9% sales tax and a few selective tariffs and fees. And I think they’d have more money in the long run.

[Man50D]

I am firmly convinced that any income tax will always be unfair, unethical, and a springboard to socialism.

You and Karl Marx. That's why he included a heavy, progressive tax on productivity as a plank in his Communist Manifesto.

I’m equally convinced that any nation could easily survive with only a 5-9% sales tax and a few selective tariffs and fees.

Tariffs and fees are other names for a tax. A tax by any other name.