text: m:  Yes I can and quite easily.  There is no other tax that you can groom as easily as a sales taxes.  You can exempt essentials, you can control the amount you pay by judicious spending.  What's not to like about it except that everyone has to pay unlike an income tax where only some (estimated to be less than 50%) have to pay.  A sales tax doesn't lend itself so easily to your favored redistribution of wealth ploy but it is by far the fairest and even you should understand that.