Tell you what? Tell you your rebate (or if you prefer the oxymoronic "prebate") is grossly flawed. Tell you that your central government planners assume to know everyones "necessities" and how much they cost and that all they need to know to calculate the amount is how big your family is.
An inexpensive two bd.rm. apt. in San Francisco rents for about $1250.00 a month, add your new sales tax to that and it will be $1625.00, that's $375.00 a month in tax on rent alone.
A two bd. rm. in Pocatella would rent for $450.00, add your new sales tax and it would be $585.00 that would be $135.00 a month in tax on rent alone.
One family pays $375.00 a month in tax (on rent alone) the other like size family pays $135.00 (in rent alone), both receive the same big government rebate for "necessities".
Somehow that's fair?
One family pays $375.00 a month in tax (on rent alone) the other like size family pays $135.00 (in rent alone), both receive the same big government rebate for "necessities".
Somehow that's fair?
Certainly, the choice to live in a high rent area as opposed to an area that has lower rents and lower taxes, is not a function of necessity.
The HSS povertyline is the determinate. How you allocate your income by your choices of where you live or what you specifically buy is your own affair, as it should be.