Isn&#x27;t that the way it already is, for the most part?  Granted there are some things that aren&#x27;t taxed this way (land &amp; food come to mind), but for the most part, as money flows through the system, it <i>is</i> taxed.<p>Buy a laptop for $1,000:<p>* That comes out of money you&#x27;ve been paid, presumably, so in 43 US states, you&#x27;ve paid income tax already on it, and your company has paid payroll taxes.<p>* 45 US states charge sales tax, so you pay sales tax.<p>* If you paid with a credit card, a cut of your transaction goes to the credit card company, who pays taxes on their profits from that transaction.<p>* The money is transferred to a bank account, and that bank is taxed on the profit that they make from that deposit.<p>* The laptop company pays taxes on the profits that they make from that laptop (depending on where they&#x27;re located, but if it was sold in the USA, they pay taxes).<p>* Any shipping company involved moving that merchandise around paid taxes on the profits they made.<p>* The company that brought the laptop into the USA pays the import taxes&#x2F;tariffs associated with it.<p>Just at a glance, every time something changed hands, it is taxed.  And this doesn&#x27;t get into things like excise tax, which are even more fun.