1) Immediately and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, sending half of the trillion dollars saved to the states, and half to a jobs program to fix bridges, roads, schools, levees, sanitation systems, water systems, etc.

2) Abolish all sales taxes through a constitutional amendment. This will have the effect of eliminating most taxes for many millions of working people. The money could be made up either from the peace dividend or by a special tax on the very wealthy. (Don’t worry – it would not really hurt – they would still be real rich.)

3) Gradually eliminate all taxes – that is ALL TAXES – paid by the 90% of the population that works for a living (or tries to), through gradually increasing taxes on the superrich until the wealthiest in our society are only 100 times better off than the poorest, like back in the thirties, rather than 10,000 times better off, like today.

4) Legalize marijuana and tax it heavily. This will help the deficit in two ways, because hundreds of thousands of pot smokers would become disentagled from the legal system and released from prison, saving public money.

5) Allow every other drug offender the option of avoiding prosecution if they agree to train for work helping the public in some capacity, then provide them with training and a job if they do well and stay out of trouble.

The sales tax alone would immediately raise many working class families’ disposable income by 10-20%, and provide a tremendous boost to small businesses in every community in the country, while at the same time freeing them up from time-consuming paperwork and records. These ‘antitax’ groups are just mostly pawns of or fronts for the superrich, because they only decry taxes that the rich and big corporations pay, not the taxes you and I get weaseled out of, day in – day out.

The rich love sales taxes and lotteries – the taxes we workers pay, and they hate the little bit of taxes they pay – corporate, dividends, etc. They love the flat tax, which would mean even less taxes for them than anything, and would drastically increase taxes for workers.

If anyone really wants a significant and powerful reduction in taxes, focused on the folks who need the help most, then lets make a push to END ALL SALES TAXES NOW.