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I just like asking questions no one will give me a decent answer to. You'd think they just wanted to sell the book, for Pete's sake. No one has ever shown me how the 'prebate' is more fair than not taxing necessities (because it can not be). No one has shown me how it is going to make government smaller (It won't). No one has shown me how that new, shiny, more friendly check issuing bureaucracy is going to be any cheaper (Can't happen). Nor has anyone adequately explained to me how this is fair to people who have paid the taxes on the income they have saved and will now pay them again as they spend it.

I do see a lot of starry-eyed musing about how everything is going to get cheaper as the embedded taxes all magically evaporate, and how we are all going to get our 'full' paycheck, and how no one in corporate positions anywhere is going to fulfil their responsibilities to their stockholders or investors and not shave a few percent of the taxes that people did not know they were paying into the corporate profit margin.

Nor did anyone explain to me how we would know if they did, but you can bet the Dems would blame the greedy corporations anyway (how marxist).

I have not seen anyone explain to me how this is fair to the same people who paid their taxes on that income they saved for retirement, now that their health care costs have increased, to tax them on healthcare they recieve. In fact the whole scheme reeks of class warfare, and a new way to "tax the rich", as if the "rich" do not pay taxes now, to issue checks to the 'poor'.

Well, we do that now. We have the EIC, we have welfare, we have a host of Federal programs which issue checks to people who do not or cannot work. So now we are going to dip into that money for 23+% depending on your math in taxes and issue another check?

Well, my grandfather always said, "When something appears too good to be true, you had better take another look." I did.