idiots at work: asshole republicans punishing the 99% with regressive taxation

who wins and who loses if you do away with a state income tax and shift the burden to highly regressive consumption taxes?  the high-income earners?  win.  the trust-fund weasels?  big win.  the 1%?  nothing but win.  nope, as usual it is the lowest income earners, the paycheck-to-paycheck families in the bottom half of the income distribution who lose.  evil and stupid have been on the ascendancy in the united states for two generations, and now evil and stupid are in a position to completely destroy their own way of life along with everyone else's, but because they are evil and stupid, they won't even realize it until they're dead, too.