Dittohead not!, to the extent that general sales taxes are waived upon sales of products that are more often or in greater quantities consumed or used per capita by lower income persons, or upon capped monthly amounts of such utility service products sold and delivered to individual residences, a flat general sales tax is transformed to that extent be a more progressive sales tax.
My opinion is medicine, or food other than that supplied by restaurants, or caterers, not be subject to the general sales tax.
If we could draft a law that would not tax mass transportation but would not waive taxes upon long distance or luxury travel, I would prefer such transactions not be taxed.
It's difficult to draft legislation the parses ordinary and luxury priced products, I’d want much fewer waivers of sales taxes on classes of products.
In our computer age. that’s much less of a problem for products that can be associated with a primary residence.
We can waive taxes on monthly capped values of dollars and/or units of utility products associated with a specific primary residence. Where the caps are dollars, those dollars should be annually cost-of-living-adjusted, (i.e. COLA'd). This can be applied to such basic products as rent, gas, electric, water, or sewage service. These are utility services delivered to homes by cables or pipes can and usually are monitored.
General sales taxes greatest faults are their inability to waive taxes upon the unemployed poor. But there’s a limit to what’s feasible. An enterprise may not be able to pass on expenses they incurred that are not similarly incurred by their competitors. For example, they’d be unable to pass on an uninsured lawsuit loss that far exceeds their profit margin and net income. But otherwise, enterprises entire expenses are generally passed on to their customers; This is no less true when the poor are among those customers.
Respectfully, Supposn
