This is my personal thought for today on the subject of a fundamentally fair way of Taxation: First off, double and triple taxation needs to go away. Secondly, the only thing that really makes sense is: across the board for all categories of products and service the seller pay tax on the net profits from whatever he or she sold or service is provided. Essentially this would be considered a capital gain tax . no one can logically argue with that, as it is already being used to the benefit of rich people , businesses and corporations. We the people are being screwed royally with all kinds of taxes. Bottom line is ... we got the wrong people in charge and that's our fault. The government was put in place to serve the public, not use and abuse us. Check this out, I entered the above mentioned statements into AI and apparently it was trained not to answer, help research the concept or construct a model to propose ..common sense tells me why. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/the-only-thing-that-really-mak-w0JMKhgBSn.di6j1DYusVw