VAT, (value added tax), is always regressive. Lower income folks spend all their money buying things they need and some of their food expenditures are already subsidized. There are over 36MM Americans on the SNAP welfare program. It costs about $1,600 a year per participant to keep these people from starving. Of course Republicans want to cut this program along with Medicaid.
What goes unreported is that the biggest welfare queens are corporations. Walmart, Amazon and McDonalds have tens of thousands of workers on both SNAP and Medicaid. Some of the usual suspect states also have a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Wyoming.
If we want to get rid of politicians like Trump and others, pay people a living wage which is likely over $20 an hour, offer free education through college, fund all K-12 schooling at the same level, not based on property taxes, subsidize public pre-school, stop funding private education, offer Medicare to everyone. Tax corporations at 20% minium.
Rule #1, Don't lose money. Rule #2, read rule #1. - WB.
