Comment Re:Taxes, taxes, taxes (Score 1) 762
If taxes have to be raised, then raise the income taxes or property taxes. Sales taxes are a pain to collect, and they have a dampening effect on retail businesses. Also, they are skewed against the poor, since poorer people typically must spend a higher percentage of their income on retail goods.
This is a blatant lie that needs to stop now. Sales taxes are much cheaper to collect than income and property taxes -- there are significantly fewer retail sales points than tax filers currently. Income tax has the same dampening effect on retail business as sales tax if not worse due to the lack of transparency. Sales taxes are not skewed against the poor. There is nothing forcing a poor person to pay a higher percentage of his income on retail goods than a rich person would pay. If sales taxes were fair, as in they applied to new houses and retail services like visiting a doctor, you would see that rich people pay an equal or higher percentage of total sales tax collected.