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Originally Posted by auspex
Personally, I find consumption taxes to be more despicable than avoiding them. They're regressive and hurt the poor more than the rich.
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I hear this a lot, unfortunately the simple fact is that
everything hurts the poor more than the rich (I've also noticed that most peoples definition of the rich is "more money than me").
It's a hard sell, though, to say to people that you are raising income tax and lowering sales tax, people generally don't react well to raising income tax, but are, bizarrely, more amenable to sales tax changes, petrol and alcohol taxes hurt the poor more but no one seems to care they are
much higher than normal VAT.