In order to pay for all its services, the government needs to tax us, as a nation, X dollars. I don't know how much X is, but it's a frigging large number, of course. If they remove almost every tax, the one(s) that remain must increase accordingly so that they still bring in X dollars. As a nation, we'll be taxed by the same amount either way.
The many complicated taxes we have now are a process of sharing the tax burden around, so that hopefully everyone pays a fair amount. Thus we have income tax, in which people who earn more, pay more; sales tax, in which people who buy more, pay more; property tax, in which people who own more, pay more; etc.
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Spending as long as I do here, it's easy to forget that Oddworld has actual fans.
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