> sales tax replacing income tax is bad because things will cost more i don't understand this argument. my last shit job had me paying like $800 a month in taxes. i forget how much was federal income tax, but pretend it was only $300. if you are buying $400 of shit a month, even a 30% sales tax would only be $120 so you would come out $180 ahead every month. if you aren't making a lot of money you can't afford to buy a lot of shit anyway, so the only way you could end up worse from this is if you were buying a ton of crap on credit.
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