Sales tax is STATE TAX not FEDERAL, EVERYONE also pays federal tax on every gallon of gas that they buy, you have no idea how much someone making 12 mil a year needs to maintain their lifestyle and it's really none of your business, what is my business is how much of my money the Government takes and what is that money spent on, you think the Government cares about working Americans? I know someone very very close to me who got a $6500 Christmas bonus this year from a private business because they actually care about their employee's, because the bonus was not considered a "paycheck" their bonus was taxed Federally $3000, I know for a FACT this person makes less than $50k a year, as an added bonus the $6500 will be added to the earnings for the year and be taxed again in April, Millionaires and Billionaires ......RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!