HILLARY'S UGLY 'JOKE'

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Torrere

That's not true at all. Gravel has flat out stated that he has no hopes for winning the presidential nomination and that he is only campaigning for President so that he can get his message out.

Of course, this means that everyone can find some way that they strongly disagree with him and he has been pretty effectively marginalized and he's been excluded from some of the debates.

I know that Gravel favors:
* ending the drug war
* getting out of the oil wars in the Middle East
* oil independence "within 5 years"
* gay rights
* year round schooling???
* progressive sales tax???
* and some other stuff

He has his own health care plan, too, of course.

Well those first four have a fair bit going for them, (not to say that they're workable or have nothing going against them though) ... but ... progressive sales tax?? What??
How would that even work? Rich people have to pay more than poor people on the same item? Or expensive items are taxed at a higher rate than lower price items?
I don't have time to even start listing how unworkable either approach would be.
Torrere, can you tell me what the idea is here?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

How would that even work? Rich people have to pay more than poor people on the same item? Or expensive items are taxed at a higher rate than lower price items?

Expensive items will have a higher tax rate than cheaper items.

For example, if an item costs $10.00 it will have a tax rate of 5.00% making it $10.50 in total.

But if an item costs $10,000 it will have a tax rate of 10.00% making it $11,000 in total.