Also this article fails to understand the prebate of the Fair Tax...where the poor (everyone for that matter) gets a check so that in effect all the stuff you buy for the essentials in a year aren’t taxed.
I think you are right about the government payment. If every quarter everyone in the country receives a check from the government rather than has to pay estimated income taxes, the the sales tax will be a very popular program.
The problem is getting there from here and assuring by constitutional amendment that the income tax is completely dead.
Other great things about a sales tax is that the exception carved out to the 5th amendment goes away too. A sales tax keeps the government much more out of everyones business.
What is the rationale for that? I understand that there are necessities and it helps people out, but why don’t just exempt food and medicine?
I am extremely uncomfortable with everyone getting a check from the government. Too bureaucratic and big brother-ish.