[bob1029]

Toll roads are a bad example IMO. We could have an entirely separate conversation about how they hurt the most disadvantaged and are typically a gigantic scam when played out on broader timelines. If you want to see the end game on toll road experience, come visit Houston sometime.

A consumption tax would be something more like "I want to buy a new hillside estate and I have to pay this special 20% fuck you tax because I'm excessively wealthy".

Consumption tax code could be fairly complex in order to minimize impact to those who are purchasing day-to-day items and other essentials. I would happily pay extra taxes on my discretionary purchases like high-end PC hardware (and probably make more of them) if it meant that on the other hand I wouldn't be penalized just for working and making money. Anything you could buy at a grocery store should probably be exempt or in a tightly-controlled tier.

Property taxes are cool too. Land is a ~fixed resource, so you have to have some counterpressure involved there. I am not saying alter property taxes to accommodate any of this, I just think they have a place.