Comment: It's not better if it's extremely high

In post: Gary Johnson wants a 23% national sales tax.

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It's not better if it's extremely high

Submitted by Unkut on Mon, 08/13/2012 - 01:07. Permalink

And 23% seems way too high to me, for a libertarian. I thought we wanted to drastically cut government. 23% sales tax replacing the income tax, which a lot of people don't pay very much for in itself, seems like it would keep the welfare/warfare state pretty well funded.