"-- It would take a lot of the reason for illegal immigration away. It would make everyone a tax payer. --"
'Always' wrongly replies:
No more so then the current code.
Wrong.. -- Illegals pay very little under the 'current code'. -- Everything they bought would be taxed under the fair tax, as you know.
--- under the fairtax everyone is getting a monthly $500 check for the family consumption allowance,
Wrong. -- Illegals would ~not~ get an allowance check, as you well know.
which would make it by far the biggest welfare department ever created.
Welfare is a fact of life. -- Perhaps this aspect of the fair tax would lead to a genuine nationwide reform in how we structure the whole mess. -- All of the State & local welfare schemes could be incorporated into the 'rebate' allowance.
Everything bought today has embedded taxes in them. So when an illegal buys goods, his money is going towards paying all the taxes in creating those goods. Certainly the illegal is probably cheating the income tax system assuming he makes enough to have an income tax liability. But if he buys legal goods, he is paying taxes indirectly.
Wrong. -- Illegals would ~not~ get an allowance check, as you well know.
Until the courts rule they do get allowance checks.
Welfare is a fact of life.
So we should just make bigger welfare programs to the tune of $500 Billion per year????