[lucysmom]

Nowhere in there lucy will you find a negative tax rate. Why's that?

I can't answer that question because I don't have enough information.

[Principled]

But Lucy, you said that the rebate is an entitlement. How could you say that if you now say that you don't have enough information to determine whether the rebate results in anything other than refund of taxes paid?

You're backtracking severely? Why's that?

It's because you know the rebate is a refund. Your assertion that the rebate is an "entitlement" is empty scare.

What's your real reason to object to the nrst?

[Principled]

I can't answer that question because I don't have enough information.

The information you need is in the BLS table and the rebate table for the nrst. The information isn't the problem. It's all there.

The reason you don't answer is because your reasoning has betrayed your true position IMO.

If you were opposed to people getting negative tax rates, you'd favor the nrst because it has fewer. But you don't favor the nrst.

So then you were not truthful when you said you thought the rebate was an entitlement and that's the reason you object to the nrst.

Can't have it both ways. Which is it?