How will the gov't know what anyone's income is?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c107:1:./temp/~c107kV2thr:e36975:
I guess they will only know about employed people....it does seem to be a sticking point...eliminating the tax on all necessities would be difficult, as that could include food, clothing, housing, transportation.
On the other hand if the rebate is keyed just to the Poverty Level, what difference does it make what the poverty level is at if everyone receives the same amount?About the only possible monkeying around would be if they drastically changed the poverty level for an individual vs a larger family unit or vice versa.
The rebate will be for taxes assumed paid. I guess one could get more rebate than taxes paid if they were somewhat self sufficient and consumed less of the necessities, by camping in the wilderness and hunting & fishing for their own food.
Despite not being perfect, the NRST seems much more efficient and less subject to influence by special interest groups to me than what we have now.
Easiest & fairest thing to do IMO would be to eliminate the rebate and lower the tax for all, but how to convince the socialists that is fair is the problem, they are so used to handouts now.