An unusual new report from the Trump administration’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) suggests that states consider drastically raising their sales taxes and using those new revenues to pay for repealing taxes on corporate and personal income. Working-class families would face dramatic tax increases while the nation’s wealthiest families would see their state tax bills plummet. Under the CEA’s proposal, states would repeal their corporate income taxes, personal income taxes, and the portion of any sales tax paid by businesses, all under the guise of pursuing a trickle-down theory of economic growth. In the CEA’s telling of things, its plan could be realized with a headline sales tax rate in the range of 6.2 to 8 percent. This is why taxes on consumer spending, such as sales taxes, tend to ask far more of working-class families than the rich.