Jackson, Ms is jacked up (Merged)

Maybe, but there's more than a handful of billionaires in the US, and quite a few who make 8 figures+. They don't all have the impact of a Bill Gates and don't have the same levers he has, but they still have accounting and tax strategies that allow them to reduce their effective rates to near 10% or less. It's a racket and an injustice that the very rich pay a lower percentage than most who make less than $200k. I'm not necessarily opposed to tax breaks on some things, but not so much that you're reducing effective rates to 10% or less. Maybe set a floor, like 20 or 25% effective rate to ensure everyone is paying their share.

I have the same problem with the corporate tax structure that allows large companies to go years without paying corporate taxes. They need to contribute more than they actually do. There needs to be a minimum tax for companies above a certain level of revenues. I don't know what it should be, but it shouldn't be zero.


Not if it's a targeted sales tax. Many localities/counties have local sales taxes that don't apply to food items, or items that disproportionately affect the poor. Sales taxes would be a far more efficient method of collecting taxes, but would never happen because there's entire industries that love our tax system the way it is now.
Even correcting for poverty, a sales tax takes more from a working class paycheck than it does middle class which pays more than upperclass