[Paladin2]

"Everyone would get a “pre-bate” check at the first of every month to re-imburse them up to the poverty line so that the poor are not unduly burdened."

This a fundamental flaw of the proposed FT unless those folks are also disenfranchised. Everybody needs to have skin in the game so politicians have a VERY difficult time raising the FT rate or the prebate amount.

[Hostage]

Yet another weak argument.

Everybody does have “skin in the game”. The Rebate is the same for billionaires as it is for grandma on social security.

But the rich are going to spend much more than grandma and they will pay more as a result. Thus, the FairTax is inherently progressive.

For people to take advantage of the FairTax they would have to be deliberately poor. That’s against human nature in general.