Reply #13: Here in CA the sales tax is 9.5% [View All]

[Frances]

If we add a VAT tax, then the poor and middle class would be subsidizing the wealth of the top 1% even more.

A graduated income tax is the fairest way for each income tax to pay his/her fair share. Under the REpubs the top 1% keep getting more of the pie while the middle class gets less.

Meg Whitman, for example, has spent 80 million dollars (as I remember) of her own money to buy the governorship so she can use her power as governor to keep her income taxes unfairly low. I think her opponent has spent about 20 million dollars of his own money to buy the governorship so he can use his power as governor to keep his income taxes unfairly low.