Reply #95: Yes your assumption is wrong [View All]

[sweetheart]

If a consumption tax is levied depending on the goods involved, or/and on the consumer, it can be made progressive. An example,
might be a person on minimum wage who pays no tax at all on food,
clothing and transport. Another wealthy person pays a hefty tax
at the restaurant, for the limousine, and for a designer handbag.

The european VAT is a progressive consumption tax. It can be done.

I don't know bush's vision. He likely wants a strictly regressive
system, given his impulse to destroy any hint of decency in the US.
That said, it is a presumption to think so, made by most in this
thread.... but as this is a bipartisan venture, i suggest that we
embrace it and demand that it be implemented "progressive".