You beat me to it...
Congress has authorization to carry out a direct tax to be collected and delivered by each state per citizen/person. Problem is, that requires a vote and a bill by Congress each time - and of course that means justification and debate. How many Congresspersons have the balls to do exactly that? It entails actual hard and honest poltical work. Answer: NONE!
An ongoing year to year indirect tax in the form of an “income” tax is just so much easier. Hence why you never really see a move entered onto the floor to abolish the 16th Amendment much less the current schedules implemented by the IRS under regulation. And of course, the all avoid attempts to clarify what “income” means for taxation purposes.
They are not just cowards - they’re lazy.
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Wrong!
The FairTax is an excise tax, an indirect tax on retail goods and services.
The Rebate is the same for every American and is not a tax.
The Rebate says in effect that Americans will pay no tax on goods and services that they deem essential for living and that is measured in dollars calculated by the DHHS line of poverty, a well-seasoned and means tested calculation.
To reemphasize the FairTax Rebate IS THE SAME FOR EVERY AMERICAN and hence no redistribution takes place among more than 99$% of the population. The only persons undeservedly benefitting from the Rebate are those who are bums, homeless and panhandlers and they constitute less than 1% of the population.
People on Social Security will receive a rebate equal to 23% of the poverty line or about $196 a month, But so will billionaires.
Every American individual will receive $196 a month to rebate them for the 23% National Retail Sale Tax they paid on $10,294 (the poverty level) of purchases over a year. That’s NOT REDISTRIBUTION. The money is not coming from wealthier earners. It is coming from each individual’s essential purchases and being given back to them so that in effect:
No One In America Pays Taxes Below the Poverty Level.
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq