re: #274 Oh no…Sand People!

I would love a purely consumption tax. Use a product, pay the tax that’s related to it. If you don’t…then you don’t. Now of course, some things you may not be able to get around payinf for…but I think this tax would have a great opportunity at targeting the issue you speak of.

That’s not so much what is called a consumption tax, as it is a system of fees and tolls. I think it is more fair to find a way to charge people for what they use in porportion to how they use it, with things like military and police taken care of by income or property taxes since everyone has an equal stake in defense.
But that would be called regressive taxation.