Correct, Willie Tee, you wwill not. You have the ability to control your consumption and the timing of it and therefore the amount and timing of your taxation.
That is far and away more control than you have over the present tax system - far more. And it gives you the ability to vote your displeasure with the government by consuming less or later or both. At present some part of your income is confiscated and you cant control that to any real degree.
Nice theory about the timing of consumption. Everything that keeps you alive on this Earth must be bought.
You think a NRST bill will pass as written? Ok, if it ever gets that far, we will see. I think not.
The prebate gives to someone something he did not earn taken from someone who earned it. Else he would need a prebate at all.