<p>I’m not sure what the issue regarding sales tax is…</p>
<p>Do people think the lower class shouldn’t have to pay sales tax on purchased items?</p>
<p>How would you even do that? Give them an ID card saying they are exempt and show it at each purchase?</p>
<p>Or is your plan to tax the upper brackets so much that it eliminates the need for sales tax?</p>
<p>Also, define rich and poor.</p>
<p>If a person is poor (dependent on the government/welfare), than the sales tax they are paying is with money that was already issued by the government, which was generated by a taxpayer. So sure, they are paying sales tax, but with other peoples money.</p>
<p>Also, how much do you think a “rich” person should pay in taxes? 90% of their income?</p>
<p>Also, at what point does a person stop being poor, and become what you feel is acceptable? If we get a person to that acceptable point via government entitlements, what happens when those entitlements are taken away?</p>