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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
You can chose to cut back superfluous purchases. You can't currently legally choose to pay less income tax.
gpt
That's what I thought to begin with. However, you are eventually going to spend all of the money that you earn (ideally). Which means that while you can cut back in the short term, in the long term you will still spend. And sales taxes / use taxes seem to go up quicker than income taxes.  

Additionally, let's say that you're a saver so you didn't buy that $1 doodad last year since you'd have paid 20 cents tax on top. Well, this year that doodad is $1.10 and you'll pay 22 cents tax on it. Tax rate stayed the same but now inflation (and random supply chain / whatever) has made your life even more of a hell.