Excise taxes on gasoline and state sales taxes are often criticized for being regressive, even though everyone pays the same tax rate regardless of income. why could this be the case?

Yes because a person with a lower income may tend to spend a greater share of his income on gasoline

Explanation:

For example, if a low income individual earning $1000 and a high-income person who earns $2000 each purchase 12 gallons of gasoline, the taxes on this purchase will consume a larger portion of the low-income person’s earnings than that of the high-income person. Assuming a tax rate of 5% of earnings multiplied by 12 Gallons.

Low income individual earnings after tax deductions= $400

High income individual earnings after tax deductions= $800

answerjointly by the fed and by the behavior of individuals who hold money and of banks in which money is held;

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.