This.

I can see it at FairTax.org. This proposal has been around since the 90s. It was meant as a pro-capitalist alternative to the income tax code because the corruption of the income tax "progressiveness" has caused inescapable institutional decay and immorality by those being taxed, those receiving funds, those getting elected, and in the media and 'non'profit institutionalization of propaganda.

The opposite of capitalism (profit-worshipping at all costs to the world through manipulation of prices) is sales taxes that reflect the real cost to the future of every purchase, and cycling that revenue back to our places and the people closest to the soil and the planet as valued contributors, rather than exploitable consumers.

The FairTax proposal was a 23% sales tax and a prebate to make it 'fair'. Renegotiate that to a higher tax, then institute UBI, healthcare, re-education and actual human goals as contributors to places.

The capitalists can still capitalize..it's just that their lies are exposed at the decision point: the checkouts. Progressives can still work for progress while not having to spend so much time justifying one special interest over another (all people get the same check every month).

Cops can become safety and community servants rather than property protectors.

Throw in the elimination of elections (choose representation by lottery).

We have to do something. It doesn't matter where it starts from.

P.S. KSR's TMTF is a great place to start the conversation.

I found the Euro-bent fantasy a bit much (too many of the characters getting forgiven rather than just violently eliminated, and waayyyy too much time is allowed for human connections/effective communications: in reality, you get an elevator pitch to a stubborn, rich idiot, you don't get a meeting or a working government council), but I loved the attempt.