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xapata
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Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
Income tax is hard to collect. Sales tax is regressive.
Solution: sales tax with lump-sum redistribution to make it progressive. Forget income tax.
aembleton
on Nov 8, 2017
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But then you just buy from overseas. Or if you have many land-borders like Germany, you just drive across a border.
xapata
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Import tariffs are possible, set to equal the sales tax. Enforcement for large corporations will be relatively easy. I'm not worried about individuals.
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Solution: sales tax with lump-sum redistribution to make it progressive. Forget income tax.