• Anamnesis@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The states that rely on sales taxes for most of their income are the most likely to tax the poor the most, since the poor spend more of their income.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t buy this, man. Groceries aren’t taxxed, and I just don’t see how a lower income individual could physically buy the same amount of taxed goods as a multimillionaire