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To: Your Nightmare
A person living in poverty would have a negative tax rate under the FairTax ...

Wrong.

Bad wrong

The folks in this bls data who live below the poverty line spend up to the poverty line.

317 posted on 05/18/2006 4:55:59 PM PDT by Principled
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To: Principled
The folks in this bls data who live below the poverty line spend up to the poverty line.
We've been through this before. That table is wrong and it totally skew by people living off of savings or flat out lying about their income (that data comes from surveys). Or maybe you would like to explain how else someone could spend more than they make in income.
318 posted on 05/18/2006 5:17:59 PM PDT by Your Nightmare
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