While less taxes is always better than more taxes, I feel like a Sales Tax is one of the few "Just" taxes around.
Sales tax, like many taxes invade privacy to some degree.
Don't want to pay the tax? Don't buy the product.
Nearly everything you own is purchased.
Taxes in your state too high? Find people willing to sell what you want for cash so you can avoid the tax.
So, commit a crime? This highlights how sales tax invades privacy and how easily it entices people to be tax-cheats and hence criminals.
If the Income Tax gets shot out back like the rabid dog it is, my next white whale is Property Taxes which are anathema to private property.
Property taxes are the most harmonious with the John Locke style of private property. The property is protected by the government, and hence the property should pay for it's government. The property would logically be linked to voting rights.
Property rights are bestowed by legal entity nation-states. Usually hierarchically (Country > State > County > Municipality).
A Land Tax avoids taxing improvements. Taxing improvements (like a building) penalizes those who make use of their land.
But, people get understandably upset with throwing grannies out of their homes. A kind of "reverse mortgage" or lean that doesn't throw out grannies is a good idea.
There are other considerations, but getting into economic autistics would be far too much for this thread.
Taxing rentier monopolies like tarrifs, radio spectrum rights, fishing rights, mineral rights, intellectual property rights, and seigniorage are also good non-distorting sources with no dead weight losses.
But, arguing about taxes is another Captain Planet topic. Somehow we will loop around to WWII and Germany and their will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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