[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?

[lucysmom]

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?

If someone receives regular gifts of food, clothing, and housing from a charity, who pays the tax? If a church gifts a destitute member with a used car, who pays the tax? If the rental value of a home one owns is counted as an expenditure, who pays the tax?

An in kind gift may be counted as an expenditure when measuring certain economic activity though no money has changed hands, and I assume, no tax would be paid even under the FairTax.

What is interesting, is that FairTaxers make the claim that even the impoverished "spend" up to the poverty level when justifying the prebate, and present tax free purchasing opportunities (legal evasion) when promising the tax "will be good for you too".

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

Economists can therorize what the effects of the FairTax will be, but without actual experience, nobody knows.

For instance, experience in other countries has shown the sales taxes over 12% are difficult to collect, a fact poo pooded by the FairTaxers.