> If you have a very small percent of your population pay an ever increasing share of the tax burden, it’s quite easy for them to avoid it (move to Florida). T

> If you have a very small percent of your population pay an ever increasing share of the tax burden, it’s quite easy for them to avoid it (move to Florida). This is why I like the idea of a federal property tax and a federal VAT. Sure, these taxes are not exactly progressive but couple high taxes with generous rebates (my own proposed name-pending housing allowance to soften the super high annual seven percent of property value federal property tax) in addition to the already well known freedom dividend (USD 1000 per month universal basic income) by one of the Presidential candidates. Taxation at the state or local level can't work. If we enshrine interstate commerce, we cannot allow capital/wealth to pit communities against one another. Look at Kansas City, Missouri. It is ridiculous that it has to keep offering lower taxes for businesses to not move across state line to Kansas (because Kansas City, Kansas keeps offering lower taxes). State and local governments are NOT sovereign and we must take away taxation from them for their own good. Canada apparently has a carbon tax that gives people money back so as long as your carbon footprint isn't too much, you don't pay a lot in additional taxes.