Could you provide the link that shows that I referred you to that information?
Regardless, I don't think that the "fair" tax will ever fly, and it certainly wouldn't please me if it isn't applied equally to ALL taxpayers. The scheme being tossed around now allows for a "rebate" based on the number of individuals in the household, and claims to be "progressive". I won't even consider any plan as being fair if it also claims to be progressive.
Here's a quote from the "fairtax" FAQ: "Under the FairTax Plan, poor people pay no net FairTax at all up to the poverty level!" Which means essentially that the same democRAT deadbeat base still get a break while the rest of us pay for it. If they can't shake out the socialism and income-redistribution from the scheme, how can they even think of calling it fair?
My error. I don't know how it got addressed to you -- it was meant for our resident know-it-all, 'xcamel'. Regardless, I don't think that the "fair" tax will ever fly, and it certainly wouldn't please me if it isn't applied equally to ALL taxpayers. The scheme being tossed around now allows for a "rebate" based on the number of individuals in the household, and claims to be "progressive".
It is one helluva lot more fair than the present one, because it applies to everyone. And it's "prebate" not "rebate."
I won't even consider any plan as being fair if it also claims to be progressive.
Pardon my saying so, but that has got to be the worst reason I have seen so far for rejecting anything. So, it leaves you with the present monsterousincome tax. Are you happy with it? Here's a quote from the "fairtax" FAQ: "Under the FairTax Plan, poor people pay no net FairTax at all up to the poverty level!" Which means essentially that the same democRAT deadbeat base still get a break while the rest of us pay for it. If they can't shake out the socialism and income-redistribution from the scheme, how can they even think of calling it fair? So, the use of the word "progressive", and the fact that the new law would still relieve the poor from paying taxes up to a certain level, as at present (a feature that will never die, regardless of what changes are attempted in tax laws), has blinded you to the vast improvement of the Fair Tax over the present system, and the tremendous permanent boost it would give the country??
PS: Remember you would also get a prebate. Do you dislike it so much that you would give it back?
It is a tax refund much like the one many taxpayers receive after April 15. Everyone gets a free ride up to the poverty level - including Bill Gates.