system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
This sounds like a way to hold onto more money for rich people and making the poors pay for it. Unless they have a really sophisticated way of applying sales taxes to disproportionally target rich people and not just raise taxes of everyone’s vices (smoking, drinking, propane, etc) further. 

I might be wrong but it’s my gut reaction.
gpt
It's called exempting necessities and not exempting business transactions. Buy 40 tons of concrete? No more income tax on your employees but now you pay sales taxes on all your purchases.