Consumption taxes are hugely regressive, and really hit poor people hard. This would make doing taxes easier and probably cheaper for well paid programmers (lik

Consumption taxes are hugely regressive, and really hit poor people hard. This would make doing taxes easier and probably cheaper for well paid programmers (like many of us), and hit poor people hard. We need non-regressive taxes. California has high taxes but surprisingly is less regressive than many places. I say surprisingly because it's hard to overcome the power of wealthy people pushing tax rates down for themselves via political donation (such as is seen in the us federal tax system).