U.S. states flirt with major tax changes

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"A regressive tax is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases."

So yes, the sales tax is regressive. The fact that it will impact the poor more is not even being denied by Rucko, he states in the article that government welfare will help offset the burden for the poor.

Whether it works better that the state income tax, *shrug* it might.

Then that means a state sales tax is a FLAT tax. The rate doesn't go down.