1. The prebate system will allow the pols to manipulate & divide the people as the current income tax system does. Controlling what you owe vs. what you get back is the same thing.
2. The prebate system will allow the gov’t to continue to monitor your income, & probably your wealth as well. The wealth monitoring is a NEW intrusion into our shrinking privacy. A monthly check sent to you will also allow the gov’t to monitor your place of residence.
3. The prebate system will require as many or more bureaucrats to decide how much to send to EVERY SSN in this country EVERY MONTH! This has FUBAR written all over it. Nobody is gonna complain if they get a check 10x too big, while welfare queens will have kids like puppies, to get more money, just as they do now with welfare.
A fairer & far easier administered system would be tax exemptions on items like food, medicine, health care (do you really want to be taxed on this?), etc. Many states already have these exemptions on their sales tax, so this would be easy to implement at the retail level. Yes, the pols will argue over what is exempted, but that exemption will apply to ALL Americans without bias or favoritism.
The Federal Gov’t has NO business involving itself in the personal & private lives of EVERY citizen in this country. This is tyranny, & never intended by our founding fathers. We need less gov’t intrusion into our lives, not more. The prebate will give us more by monitoring wealth as well as income. Like sheep to the slaughter, we will all eagerly have our newborns fingerprinted, a DNA sample taken, maybe a retinal scan; just so the kid gets his/her SSN & that prebate check is in next month's mail.
Why do you think the prebate monitors wealth or income? The exact same amount of money gets sent to every household, whether you’re Joe Poor or Bill Gates. The only variable is family size.
The bureaucrats who determine the size of the prebate already exist. The government calculates poverty statistics every month, so it’s information we already have.
And I doubt a lot of physical checks would get sent out. I’ve always heard it described as a direct deposit system, or prepaid credit cards for people who don’t have bank accounts.