re: Questions about a federal fair tax.

I'm not going to latch onto it without exploring the negatives, no. And I don't have a hatred of the income tax other than we let the code itself get far too convoluted. Eliminate all exemptions and deductions and credits and such and just tax income at x Y and Z % period.


And what about regarding the prebates though? The government would still need to determine your income to see if you qualify so income forms and annual interaction with the IRS or whatever name you'd call it next since IRS = evil each year?

Lighten up, Francis. It's a chart that is calculated once a year.

Single person = $X/mo.

2 people in household = $Y/mo.

3 person household

4, 5, 6, etc.

It's wholly independent of income, etc.

ETA - Speaking of which - under the plan, how much money you make is no longer the federal government's business.

If you don't understand the difference between spreading the tax burden among 250M people vs 150M people, when there's a zero shift in money out on new goods they're already buying but they're taking home all of their earnings... and the current flaming shite show on ice where the government gets first rights to your wages at the point of a gun if you don't comply, then I don't know what to tell ya. You do you, baw.

Do not forget about Drug Dealers, illegal immigrants, and other dark money. They will be paying taxes every time they purchase goods. Also, the Fair Tax folks point out trillions of overseas money will flow back into the country once all the Corporate taxes are removed.

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The 47% of the country not paying any income tax. Pretty nifty that 47% experience no direct consequences of their voting as it relates to taxes

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And /\ THIS /\ is why I'm for it until I see something bad about it - then we can tailor the bad part down.

but FIRST you have to somehow eliminate the PARASITE society from the population mix.

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How so? According to your link that's what a prebate is?

If you actually read the FairTax legislation, you’d know that every household would get a prebate equal to the amount of tax they’d pay on essential goods each month. So they in essence are tax free.

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How so?

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You appear to be among that group of Americans who are so cucked by the concept of the income tax and the IRS in general that you can't discuss the matter of alternative methods of taxation without it being inextricably linked to income. It damned-near borders on Stockholm Syndrome.

Under the FairTax - (expand your mind for the briefest of moments):

INCOME.

DOES.

NOT.

FACTOR.

INTO.

THE.

EQUATION.

Multiple posters have said it multiple times, and each time you respond, you erroneously loop back to the concept of how much someone making as being integral to the prebate concept, what impact it would have on new home/vehicle sales, ad infinitum, and you have yet to take the first step towards understanding the most basic of concepts that make H.R. 25 such a beautiful thing:

It's none of the federal government's goddamned business how much or how little money you make.

When you can process that fact - really wrap your brain around it, accept it, embrace it - the other details surrounding the plan would likely come into focus. If that ever happens for you, the rest of the plan is really gonna bake your noodle.

“Poor people” are the only ones that spend money anymore so let them pay for everything