I oppose that ridiculous idea with every fiber of my being, you are really conducting social engineering on a grand scale when everyone is getting checks from the government. You will have politicians in the D party saying they will raise the prebates for the poor and middle class and the greedy Republicans won’t.
The thing ia not to send the money you do not owe to DC in the first place.
I will never call myself a Republican if that is what they want.
The other option is to give every head of household a tax credit on their income-tax return for the amount they paid in sales tax on spending at the poverty level (e.g., $900 for a family of four). This would work while we have a 9-9-9 plan (where there’s a 9% income tax), but not once we eliminate the income tax altogether.
If eliminating the income tax means that we have to establish a prebate system so that the sales tax isn’t regressive (and thus acceptable to the public), then I’ll take it. The possibility of Congress playing with the numbers so as to increase the prebate pales in comparison to its despotic power to raise taxes and otherwise tinker with the tax code.