re: #109 Targetpractice

This bit got me:

The GQP at the state and local level regularly push consumption taxes in the form of sales taxes while cutting others (ex: income taxes) that would fall largely upon the rich. And they insist that this is actually “better” for the poor because they “keep more of their money.”

My state senator Steve Erdman is doing that right now in the Unicameral (combined with repealing the state income tax).

He put an op-ed in every paper in the district explaining how a consumption tax is not a sales tax (LOL).

I wrote a letter to every paper rebutting the notion, and how such taxes fall primarily on the poor and middle class. You would be unsurprised to learn no newspaper printed my letter.