 consumption-based taxes mean a lot of different things but essentially what it means is you take your total income you subtract what you spend on anything at all whether it's health care or a car or anything else then you pay tax on what you spend you don't pay tax on what you earn so that could be a value-added tax it can be a flat tax it can be uh many other different versions and in this document they don't really say which one they support they just say they want to eventually go to consumption tax