The lobby profession would dearly love your idea.
What is easier on the public and on business than the state sales tax?
As for two taxes, income and sales. we have that in every state other than I think Florida.
The idea that we can not reduce income tax to nearly zero while instituting a sales tax is BS. We simply make the reduction of or elimination of the income tax a condition of the sales tax.
Sales Tax isn’t as easy as people think. It’s easy to pay. It’s not easy to administer or comply with. Here’s one nightmare I’m familiar with.
Bottled Water not taxable from grocery store in bulk
If sold at a 7-11 - taxable
Carbonated? taxable
Flavored but not carbonated - not taxable
Flavored but carbonated - taxable
From a vending machine - taxable regardless
It’s very difficult to code software to handle crap like this. To say nothing of services, or digital products, or digital services, or software, or cloud based products or software AS a service....
WHAT you are selling is often very difficult to define and technology far outpaces the tax laws. WHERE you are selling it is also hard to define.