another sales tax is a BAD IDEA. Go up to Canada and ask them how much they hate it (answer: with a passion)
and giving a 'pre-bate- to ignorant morons is an invitation to let democraps tell them how much they are 'giving' to them.
A simple flat tax on income is the best all around alternative. No 'prebate' required- you dont make enough then you pay 0%- 10%of anything above $40K
Unlike in Canada, the Fair Tax would ELIMINATE the income tax and FICA.
As Phantom Lord points out in #192, this is a replacement tax, not an additional one. You get to keep your entire paycheck. You get to decide if and when you will pay A N Y tax.
The prebate keeps the libs from HONESTLY saying that the tax is regressive and adversely affects the poor. (They'll still say it, but they'll be lying and we can prove it.)
Why do want to have to cower before the feds and prove anything to them? Why don't you want to rid us and our posterity of the IRS?
Hells fire, Mr. K, all our parents did was kill a lot of Nazis and Fascists and they get called the "Greatest Generation."
Don't you want us to be known in the future as the true "Greatest Generation" for having freed America from the greatest tyranny -- the IRS?