[carenot]

No income testing. Just exclude basic food items and housing. We want the government out of our personal papers.

Dang it! What is basic food? Beans? What is basic housing?

[Jim Robinson]

Food, medicine, and housing should not be that hard to define. Actually, the more we exempt the better. The less money sent to the feds to waste, the better off we will all be. As long as we can pay for national defense, the courts, and the post office we'll be fine. All the rest can be returned to the states and or privatized.

[Technogeeb]

Dang it! What is basic food? Beans?

Basic food is whatever you buy at a grocery store (whether it is beans or sirloin steak or caviar). It would not, however, include prepared food purchased at a restaurant or through any other food service industry.

What is basic housing?

Basic housing is a home that is purchased or rented as a primary dwelling. It would not include hotel rooms or similar temporary dwellings.