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Originally Posted by ilovetv
It can be defended from the standpoint that people legitimately employed should not be punished to pay for the taxes that people working for cash under the table, illegal immigrants, drug dealers, etc. are not paying in income tax. Consumption (sales) tax involves everyone, not just those legitimately employed. Also, there are some good points in here:
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Most if not all states without an income tax didn't simply shift the tax burden to a sales tax. This is not a case of containing out of control government spending or even lowering the overall tax burden on the citizens - it is a case of shifting the tax from income to expenditures. Anyone knows that the lower the earnings the larger percent is spent, as opposed to saved or invested. So the net result is a larger percentage of the tax burden is shifted from the well to do to those less fortunate. This shift would not hurt me personally, but is not good public policy.