So if I own a million dollar home here and a condo in Key West and several yachts and travel half of the year I would pay almost nothing in taxes to Florida. Consumption taxes hit the lower income earners and benefit the higher income earners.
It is the opposite of a progressive tax system which we have had for a hundred years where we as a society recognize that the wealthy should bear a greater burden of the operation of government. It is a very old truth, the obligation of the wealthy.
Of course rich people and their bought representatives in the legislature have little interest in how burdened the poor might be. They just need to find their bootstraps and wait for the trickle down which is coming from all those tax cuts for the rich.
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Men plug the dikes of their most needed beliefs with whatever mud they can find. - Clifford Geertz
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