Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "God Damn I Hate Leftist Economics So Much lol" video.

@joehorton5067 the sales tax affects the lower classes disproportionately because they get their prices hiked by the same amount as the rich.
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@joehorton5067 "people will spend money according to their income" - the issue is that if you're on the bottom, most of your income is spent on essentials like food, housing, car/gas if you need one to get to work, electricity, water, etc. and those are fixed expenditures you can't simply "not spend on" unless you want them to live in abject conditions. "Someone making $60,000 doesn't buy a $500,000 home" - That's an absurd example, as 60k a year is not ever near the bottom. "Someone earning $40,000 a year doesn't rent a penthouse." - Even more absurd. How about a realistic example where someone making the federal min wage has to blow a huge chunk of their paycheck on a small apartment rent and bills alone? "Likewise, you don't go to a restaurant where the tab is going to be a.couple of hundred bucks." - Every example you give is more and more out of touch with reality. You're using high/high-middle-class expenditures and contrasting them to lower-middle-class wages. How about you pick a city, check rents for apartments outside the city center and then contrast that shit to the federal minimum wage? You wouldn't even go to restaurants, period.
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@joehorton5067 "Bigger houses have a bigger tax burden on them" - You don't want that, it stands to reason that a bigger house involves more materials, more people involved, etc so a bigger house is better at stimulating the economy. Why burden things that create more jobs? "The more fuel you buy (trucking), the bigger the tab" - That puts a tax on transportation, and transportation is necessary for moving products around. The tax will be passed down to the consumer. So not only are the poor more affected by a price hike due to sales tax, they'll also get stuck with the bill for all the sales tax paid by businesses in the entire supply chain. "That leaves more goods (fuel and electricity) on the market." - The thing is, the poor don't exactly go around buying 500 gallons of gas. Especially overpriced gas. So to them it doesn't really matter that truckers are making less trips. "which leaves more materials for lower priced car production" - This is borderline surreal. Car manufacturers are not suffering the huge dilemma of separating materials between affordable cars and higher end. Profits on car manufacturing are razor thin already and forcing them to take an even greater hit by scaling back the higher end models is inherently nonsensical. "A man who buys $35 dollar jeans for work isn't paying the same tax amount as a man buying $1000 suits to work in." - Tons of people making 60-70k wear 35 dollar jeans. You still don't understand and you refuse to understand. If you're living paycheck to paycheck you don't care that the middle class is being taxed at the same effective rate because they have lavish spending habits. You care about the price hike on the products you buy with the little that's left after you burned through most of your wages on housing and bills. "That increased tax burden pushes demand down for materials used in higher priced goods" - THAT ISN'T A PROBLEM. YOU'RE TRYING TO SOLVE A PROBLEM THAT DOESN'T EXIST. "lowers the price for their use in lower priced goods. " - A million dollar house doesn't use the same materials as a 150k house. There's no competition for resources apart from concrete, gravel and wood framing. You're not gonna put the expensive luxury tiles and countertops on a more affordable home.
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