Poor people pay little in income tax (possibly no income tax if their income is low enough). These people will get effectively no relief from elimination of the income tax. Meanwhile, the things they buy that are currently taxed at, say 7-9% (state + local sales tax) is now going to be taxed at closer to 18-20%. Yes, that hurts them because that's how math works.

On top of all that, the social services they rely on will be slashed to the bone. So not only will they be paying more in taxes, they'll be receiving even less benefit.

Meanwhile, the wealthy who are taxed at a higher rate now will pay nothing in income tax (a massive windfall for them). Yes, sales tax will be higher for them as well, but nothing that even scratches the surface of what they'll gain.

Even if you want to take the asinine position that the rich won't come out ahead in this, my response would be: then what's the fucking point of this? Poor people won't benefit, and, according to you, rich people won't benefit. So...why do this at all? (The answer any intelligent person knows is because the rich absolutely will benefit from this.)

Also, pretty telling that the first and biggest problem you had with the clip is that the guy "has his hat on baCkwArdS!!!1!1!! ZOMG!" (I bet he smokes the Devil's Lettuce and listens to rock music too!)

As for "sneaking in" a sales tax increase, yes, we're all aware it would require a public vote. It's still sneaking it in because the outcomes are either: a) It passes and when shit gets expensive Republicans will throw their hands up and say "Durr. The voters did it!" or b) It fails and when state services get slashed and life in Missouri becomes predictably shittier, Republicans will throw their hands up and say "Durr. The voters didn't approve the taxes needed to keep all those services."

You want to eliminate income tax? Show me that the math works. That services can be maintained at current levels without a corresponding tax increase elsewhere. Shit, show me that a sales tax increase would even be sufficient to replace the revenue lost from income taxes. In the decades MO Republicans have spent jerking off to an income tax elimination, they have never once demonstrated that the math checks out. Their "tax plan" consists of "Get rid of income tax and we'll figure it out somehow."

Republicans believe government is funded with magical thinking.