>Sales taxes punish peoples that don't have the luxury of accumulating wealth. If the tax is too low, the rich will get richer as the tax will represent a very small ratio of their income. If it's too high, the poor will be poorer as they won't be able to afford the tax. It's an unfair tax IMHO and should be abolished for all items except maybe some luxury items.

The rich will always get richer regardless what happens to the rest. The national sales taxes I've seen proposed exempt food, low end clothing and some other necessities to effectively tax the poor nothing.

To be clear I am not advocating a national sales tax. I was simply mentioning it as an example.

>I don't object to accumulating wealth to serve as a backup for ourselves or our childs, but there's a limit.

Why should there be a limit? Talk like this suggests that there is a finite pot of money out there and if one person earns more money then another must make less. This is not the case. Unlike the cattle-futures market, the world economy is not a zero-sum game.

>When I hear about multi-millionaires, I wonder why on Earth do they need all that money for themselves.

Because we earned it.

>>I don't disagree with those statements, but that doesn't mean I should be taxed based on how much I earn. Sales taxes, corporate taxes, federal use fees, tariffs, etc can all be used without punishing people for successfully accumulating wealth. Wealth building through investment and savings should be encouraged.