[Go_Raiders]

“GIVE A ‘REBATE’ to people at the end of the year according to how little they make.”

Dude, do you even read the proposals you complain about?

Pardon my all caps but “EVERYONE GETS THE SAME REBATE” regardless of income, net worth, gender, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation or whether they bothered to read it when it was proposed.

[Dutchboy88]

The point the gentleman was making was, I think, that this rebate will become the new political football that deductions are currently. I think I agree. Likely the exempt items will also enter play, also.

As far as the flat tax goes, this sounds wonderful, but the same social engineering is implicit. Does Mr. K really think a blind grandmother should pay the same tax (rate and amount) as someone without the extra costs of a handicap? Oila’ the deductions.

Fire away, but I think the current system is here to stay and it should be that way. Probably should add a sales tax. After all, the problem of people earning here (with no income tax) and then spending where there is no US tax generated (Europe, Mexico, etc.) will use US services and never support them. Every person has income (even if it is savings) and outgo (even if they are a cheapskate). We need to tap some of that movement in both directions.

[Mr. K]

Are you listening to yourself? how long will that last? Until people start screaming “why do the rich get the same rebate as the poor”

VERY soon there will be a means test, then the rich get excluded from any ‘rebate’ then the poor vote themselves bigger and bigger rebates and higher ‘sales tax’