[Joe Hadenuf]

Why do they have to give a rebate to make it "fair"??? Why not just lower the tax rate and let us keep more of our money to begin with?

Hehe. Because they couldn't confuse you out of more of your money then.

[Principled]

THere are very clear reasons why the rebate exists. IIRC it increases the rate by 1.9%. It does, however, eliminate the divvying out of tax favors by pols. It eliminates lobbying the code. It prevents the tax from being regressive.



It's not confusing at all, IMO.