[Your Nightmare]

The drug dealers can get the rebate IF they register for it and have a valid social security number. Will they register? Who knows.

Why wouldn't they? It's free money. I'm sure some of them will figure out a way to register twice.

[maui_hawaii]

No matter what they do people are going to try and screw the system so (at least to me) thats not an argument against the plan.

People abuse food stamps too...

But none the less if the drug dealer gets a $500 rebate or whatever the number is...so be it. If he buys $30,000 worth of goods over the year then he is able to do so and I don't have a problem with it. Why don't I have a problem with it? Because just by virtue of him spending his drug money he will be FORCED to contribute into the tax system. Unlike now.

Simply put if he spends money he will more than make up for the rebate he will be recieving.

[maui_hawaii]

So basically put, if he spends $30,000 a year @ a mere 10% sales tax rate thats $3,000 that he contributed into the tax system.

If he gets $500 back or whatever it may be...we still get to keep $2500.

Thats $2500 more than the government had before or would have gotten otherwise.

Illegal means or not, if he spends it its taxed. Thats not condoning drug dealing by any means though. But it certainly would result in taxing it.

[rwrcpa1]

I'm sure they really don't want the feds to know where they live. But hey, they're US citizens. Let them get the rebate, I don't care. Lock them up and throw away the key for the drugs, though. According to the bill, prisoners don't get the rebate. LOL