It goes to everyone, including bums on the street who will pay next to nothing in sales tax. That is not their money. That is money taken from me and given to them in the form of a government check, which is an entitlement by all three legal defintions of entitlement.
Nope it is a refund plain and simple. there is no entitlement without appropriations and there are no appropriations for the FairTax prebate.
It goes to "bums on the street" (your wording) because they pay sales tax when they buy taxable things. the money is taken from them just as well as from you. Perhaps they should be bitching to high heaven about YOU getting THEIR money. Either way - that's just foolishness.
It is a refund very much like the income tax refund ... or do you call that an "entitlement", too??? After all, those folks are "entitled" to their refund, right???
It is a refund since an entitlement is a government program (meaning that it must be created by law and have ongoing separate appropriations to fund it. The FairTax is not such a program but a tax law. They are different things.