Tax system favors the "wealthy"

You hear this a lot, "our tax system makes the rich, rich" and it is true. Our current tax code is a bastardized version of the original from nearly 100 years ago. In fact, the whole idea of "taxing" income is moronic. Sadly, most citizens look at this unfavorable advantage to the 'rich' as a reason to "tax them more", wrong, it is a reason to change the whole system. The colonies originally revolted, with a less than 40% in favor by the way, because of unfair taxation. Well, that is what we have today. Our tax code should not focus on class-warfare, or pinning the rich vs the poor. It should focus on something much more simple. It should focus on purchasing.

Instead of an income tax, we should have an expense tax. Every time you make a purchase we should pay around 10-13% in Federal Sales tax, on everything but groceries and fuel (heating, transportation or otherwise). There should be zero, zippy, none, nil in other words null income tax. It shouldn't be. There is no reason to associate deductions and dependents and the like to your income; we should focus on what you purchase.

The benefit to this approach is that EVERYONE will pay 'their fair share' as the President and leading Democrats love to say. Now that guy buying the $20 million dollar house isn't in a special income tax bracket on the 100K he took as salary (while he made 900K in capital gains), he is instead forced to pay a 2 million dollar Federal expense tax. Figure this, the average middle-class American family probably purchases 2-5 homes and 4-10 cars in their lifetime, they would pay relatively high tax costs for these goods; however, they pay no income tax to the Federal government. So they are now keeping anywhere from 10-30% of their salary, that is a lot of purchasing power reinstated.

Hopefully America someday will realize what it means to have a 'fair share' tax code.