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by harryh 2336 days ago
We could do that, but then it would be more like a poll tax or a head tax instead of a consumption tax.
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How so, taxes are meant to fund the government and services they provide. Everyone who lives in a jurisdiction either consumes those government resources or we as a society have decided that it was in the common good to provide those services (ie education).