[Neoliberalnot]

I spent $600 last year and don’t have the bill for this year. I’ve been spending at least $500 for years. National sales tax is what it needed, that way, everybody pays something.

[Kellis91789]

You don’t need a sales tax to make sue everyone pays.

You could make a minimum income tax rate no matter what deductions and credits would otherwise do — an AMT for everyone, not just the high earners.

Or you could have businesses pay a 5% tax on gross revenues instead of profits, and everyone would pay as that tax was embedded in the price of everything they buy. A 5% GRT would replace ALL other federal taxes including Corporate and Personal Income taxes and SS/M taxes. It would have to be paired with import tariffs and export credits, however, or it would kill off American manufacturing even worse than the embedded corporate and payroll taxes are doing.

[LambSlave]

National sales tax is what it needed, that way, everybody pays something.

Agree, consumption taxes are the best tax. The tax is then "voluntary", and you get less of what you tax, so taxing anything that leads to growth (e.g. income)is the wrong idea.

[wintertime]

Please see my post #21.