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argument about the flat sales tax strategy: a flat sales tax quite literally taxes poor people at a higher rate than rich people

poor people spend 100% of their income on the things they need

as people earn more and more, they are able to save and end up spending a smaller and smaller percentage of their income

So if the flat sales tax were 30% or something, poor people would have an effective tax rate of 30%, while people like me would have an effective tax rate of something like 15%, because I save half of the money I earn.
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