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I believe so. So far, they are preying on a relatively small portion of the population. If a "Fair Tax" was enacted, that population would increase by at least an order of magnitude.

Ohhhh, you mean like credit cards. Nasty thing credit, should be outlawed could lead to too much consum'n go'n on out there.

Can you then fathom the liberal media claiming that "the disenfranchised" are being taken advantage of and we should give them even more compensation? I can.

And why don't they do it know? Afterall it would only be a simple thing to extend the EITC in such a way as to be paid out though one's paycheck. You know something like reverse whithholding. OOPs. they do that now, nevermind.

Sorry, can't get excited about a sales tax rebate that goes to every legal resident being anything exceptional except for once everyone gets it, same as everyone pays the same tax rate.

Course we could just keep doing it like the income/payroll tax system we have:

Bush touts relief as tax day looms

Another 3.9 million Americans will have their income tax liability completely eliminated, officials said.

That's 3.9 million Americans more added to the spending constituency of 70% of the public clamoring for more from government, believing someone else foots the bill, and bypass the taxing them altogether too.

"As a matter of fact, what the income tax does — and this is the debate that I think we always try to get into in order to let you and him fight, see — and the people of this country are led down a path where the actual control of their resources, which in the end is the control over their will, is handed off to the government."

. . .

"The government then manipulates that will in order to destroy the freedom of our electoral system through the income tax structure, and we call the resulting slavery a free system."

"In point of fact, it is not as the founders understood, and the only way to restore real freedom is to give people back control over the income that they earn so that they won‘t, at the voting booth and in other phony issues, be subject to that manipulation."

- KEYES TRANSCRIPT (01/28/02)

The Honorable James DeMint (R-SC)
United States House of Representatives
APRIL 5, 2001

"There has been a shift in the relationship between individuals and government, he argues, such that fewer and fewer are paying taxes at the same time that more and more are receiving increasingly generous benefits. If it becomes the case that most voters do not bear a financial burden for this largess, then there will be little to restrain--and significant political incentives to encourage--the continued growth of government.