There is nothing in the system to prevent an administration from increasing the default payout to every household to be equal to the average income of every citizen.
"The FCA will be paid in advance, in equal installments each month. The size of the monthly FCA will be determined by the government's Poverty Level for a particular family size, multiplied by the tax rate. Every year, the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] determine the "poverty level" for each family size."
[ The monthly FCA for each adult is .23 * (HSS poverty level for a single person)/12 to assure no marriage penalty due to the manner in which the poverty level is dependant on family size. The monthly FCA for each child is .23 * (the incremental increase of HSS poverty level for a family with one child over no child) ] A. Geezer 68
There's the mechanism that prevents an administration from increasing the payout beyond the poverty level.
Zon: That's what you get via exempting necessities from NRST: special interest groups "bribing" government officials to get AIDS medicines and etcetera exempt from the NRST 895
So?
Ah, your true colors seep through. Dishonesty is okay with you. I already knew that but thanks for making it so clear.
Zon: Plus, politicians campaigning on the benefits to specific groups of people rather than benefits to equals/individuals. As if any group can be proclaimed from on high to be more important or deserving then one person or one individual. 895
Choosing not to charge taxes on some product does nothing to unequalize any consumer. There is nothing in a pure national sales tax that would require any particular group to pay a higher taxation rate, or give an exemption from taxation to any other group.
It certainly does when politicians campaign based on catering to special interest groups with the intent of pushing a Bill through congress to exempt certain items not based on necessity, but rather, based on a certain group of people as promoted by a special interest group's lobbyist lobbying members of congress. It "unequalizes" because only certain special interest groups get exemption and other groups and individuals do not get an exemption and/or certain procedures or medicines are exempt when others aren't exempt. For example, AIDS sufferers get exemptions but glaucoma and Alzheimer's suffers don't.
Also, as AG wrote: "Exemption of goods and services creates classes of folks who perceive little to no cost with respect to received benefit." 893
Zon: Your attempts to paint the ...NRST as a socialist tax-and-control mechanism is disingenuous or ignorance at best and intent to deceive at worst. 895
Now you're either confused or deliberately lying. I haven't said ANYTHING negative about a national sales tax; I just don't want the social welfare state that the "prebate" system naturally and inevitably provides.
Here, I'll quote you:
Technogeeb: "I think you're being a bit naive to believe it would eliminate such. Instead, I see the "partisan bickering" moving to the subject of the amount of the "prebate", with continual increases in this amount (automatic cost of living adjustments, increases to special interest groups such as people that need to purchase AIDS medicines, etc) until the worst fears of a socialist state are realized." 891
The FCA "prebate" is integral to the NRST and is not a socialist mechanism no matter how loudly you proclaim it is. I'm not lying. If I'm confused it's because of trying to cut through your hyperbole. Thus it is you that initiated the confusion. But then again you did say "until the worst fears of a socialist state are realized." Which you claim isn't hyperbole. You can't have it both ways -- either you meant it as hyperbole or you meant it seriously. I took it as serious.