[Your Nightmare]

Folks spend, irrespecive of their "income".

Golly, who could spend without income? Hmmmm...

(You also need to understand averages and how they can skew population tendencies. If I have 20 spending $5,000 a year and 5 people spending $50,000 a year, the average is $14,000. Is that very helpful in determining the true spending level of those 25 people?)

Very few will spend little enough to profit on the rebate. Indeed, this table indicates that nobody will.

Yup, 'cause everyone knows there's really no one living in poverty.

This is what irks me about you FairTax people. You see something that obviously doesn't add up and, because it helps your argument, you don't ask question. It's intellectually dishonest.

[Principled]

What's dishonest? I post data indicating average incomes and their associated average spending levels. The averages show that few people will spend below poverty level.

You are trying to discount the data for two reasons:

First, the data discount your theory that the rebate is going to be going to people who don't deserve it (and that doesn't happen now, does it?)

Second, the data show a valid reason to assert that the nrst does a better job of collecting from the cash economy.

It's a double-whammy for those who assert otherwise using only their opinions.

As I've said for months, if you have associated data, post it. To date, you've declined to post any contrary data. Who's dishonest - the one who posts data and uses the data to buttress an assertion or the one who discounts the data because he doesn't like it?

Keep trying.

[Principled]

Golly, who could spend without reporting income? Hmmmm..

That is the crux of the reason the nrst does a better job of collecting taxes from the cash economy. Thank you for making the point so clearly.

[pigdog]

Talk about intellectually dishonest, let's not forget your little 409% "error" (which you still pretend was honest).

Let's not bother with the quasi-statistical mumbo jumbo either ... and that's not even what was said, but one of your straw men.