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Consumption taxes. Let’s end income taxes completely and identity doesn’t matter for taxes.



Consumption taxes (like sales taxes) are heavily regressive and result in the poor shouldering a much heavier share of the tax burdem than the wealthy, proportional to their share of income (let alone disposable income).




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