Let me preface this by saying that I am still very new to Universal Healthcare and Welfare programs as a whole so the answer to my question may seem obvious, or I may come across as ignorant and such. That said here's my question:
If every citizen, regardless of income bracket, paid the same percent income tax and still having a flat sales tax, wouldn't that function for Universal Healthcare and even other welfare programs. The way I imagine it is that if a privately owned hospital decided that the bandage they gave you should cost $1 (just bare with me), the Federal Government would step in a say "Here's a dollar, formed by every 300 million citizen offering up their own portion of it." So if someone who makes $10,000 got taxed 2% income tax but also made less purchases, thus they paid less sales tax, wouldn't they be offering up their fair share of money towards welfare products as an extremely rich person who makes billions and spends more on goods (more sales tax)? So the poorer person would be offering 100,000x less money to someone's medical bill but it would be the same percentage of their monetary intake.
Sorry again if this is obviously wrong and I'm dumb for not understanding, I'm still trying to figure this whole thing out and learn. Thank you for understanding.
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