[pigdog]

That's not the same thing at all RIghtie. The hypothetical welfare queen to who you refer has undoubtedly never paid taxes for one or more years and probably will not do so next year and beyond.

With the FairTax, every taxable item one buys pays a bit of tax and most people - by far - do not live below the FairTax poverty amount when it comes to spending. Do you have some study to present that shows the percent of people who consume nothing - or at least nothing taxable under the FairTax???

If so, please present it.

[Always Right]

Do you have some study to present that shows the percent of people who consume nothing - or at least nothing taxable under the FairTax???

Do I need to study to say the sky is blue and the grass is green. There are millions of people who earn below the poverty line and thus will spend much less on taxes than the prebate pays them. There will a million or so of people living on the street who the prebate will be their biggest source of income. It is pure welfare to these people, not a refund of taxes.

[Principled]

Here's some data. It shows that even those earning far below the poverty level consume up to and beyond it.

Here.

'Course it's old, 2001. And there is no reason to think any other year would be significantly different.

Earn or not, folks consume. So while there will be those who some months receive more in prebate than they spend, the aggregate picture is that there will be very, very few in that situation long-term - contrary to what we have now in our income tax.

Yet another point on which the nrst is better than the existing system.