Everyone in the U.S. would get a check from the government every month under the Fair Tax proposal.
That check is called the "prebate". It ostensibly refunds the amount of the minimum Fair Tax that an individual would spend in the next month to maintain one's self at the poverty level.
Ohhhhhh! Prebate is just another word for subsidie, welfare check! I think people forget that when you get money from the government along come all the strings that bind you into slavery.
It’s like in the movie “Blade Runner” where in that universe the word for executing a Replicant was called “retirement.”