And the CONSUMER, not you , pays it you idiot!
He or she is clearly a confused and disturbed individual.
Mixing up notions of consumer versus business taxes, non-uniformity in rebates applied to families versus uniform rebates applied to individuals.
He or she does not understand the FairTax basics and like a leftist democrat tries to confuse the issue or creates diversions to unrelated issues.
You guys are arguing semantics. OK, so the business is taxed upon its income at the point of sale; the consumer is imputed with the responsibility, but it’s the business that in fact receives the money and then sends a fraction to the feds. You can say the consumer pays the tax but the business collects & aggregates & submits it (making the business a tax collector).
So what? However it is done and whatever semantics apply, the feds confiscate trillions of dollars, waste most of the money in ways it is not granted power to, bill our grandchildren for >50% more spending on top of that, and do it in a manner where it may scrutinize & adjust each and every purchase made.
Sales tax, whoever is imputed as making the payment, is idiotic.
How about a different, more Constitutional, approach: reduce the IRS to a couple of guys working a couple days a year to receive, record, and deposit one large check from each state & territory. Let Congress decide what each state’s “fair share” is according to the Constitution, and let each state decide how it’s going to raise the money - or how it will push back with enough force of “NO!” that Congress will take notice and lower its demands.