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Most state and local income taxes are much flatter, specifically to avoid the sort of problems that you're talking about here. For example, in Maine (not a red state), the top tax bracket is anything over $58,000. Sales tax is a little more complicated, but usually poor people pay a higher share of their income on it, because not everything is exempt and most people aren't carefully strategizing to avoid paying sales tax.
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