That’s what the rebate does!
Can you survive on $852 per month? Won’t you agree that almost every American will completely spend their first $852 per month on consumer necessities? Now of that $852 spent at the cash register there will be a federal sales tax (consumer only; not for businesses), of $196 and that is what is reimbursed to the taxpayer as a rebate. And because there’s a lot of folks at low income levels like seniors on social security alone, that $196 is a huge burden to them. So we have the federal government send the $196 at the beginning of the month rather than the end, and that’s why the Rebate is called a Prebate!
I am 1,000% against “reimbursements”
Don’t take it in the first place. Make it as simple as possible.