What If We Abolished Income Taxes & Replaced Them With 'Stuff Taxes'? : TreeHugger

What If We Abolished Income Taxes & Replaced Them With 'Stuff Taxes'? : TreeHugger: "Over at Green Biz there's an interesting article that proposes a way to address the environmental impact of the goods we buy, as well as realign our tax code to stop penalizing the very thing we want to encourage. What if we abolished income tax for just about every single person and made up the revenue with a higher tax on consumption, a 'stuff tax'?"