re: #205 PT Barnum

I personally think a national sales tax is a better choice, but it disproportionately affects those who spend everything they earn, as opposed to those who have more than they need.

Those with more than they need are therefore incentivized to not spend what they have so that they never pay taxes on it.

Perfect, let them keep it in the banks and in the markets, where it can go to wrok and be lent out to others.

As for the effect on the impoverished, I daresay certain categories of basic goods could be exempt, or subject to such minimal taxation as to not effect the poor more than they need to be. I’ve lived in poverty for some years now, and so I am all too familiar with the fact that many people are compelled to spend all they make, and any system that helps the state at the expense of the poor is every bit as repugnant as any alternative.