Way to make the fair tax socialist

[graddium]

Prebates up to the level of poverty? wtf?

[Omnis]

Yeah, read the fairtax book.

I laughed at when he said Republican ought to be embracing the fairtax. I would like to see Ron say, "We ought to be embracing NO TAX."

[Dennis Peterson]

Do a national sales tax without the prebates and poor people pay a higher percentage of their income than richer people do. Without the prebates it's not doable.

[Dennis Peterson]

Do a national sales tax without the prebates and poor people pay a higher percentage of their income than richer people do.

[Black Dude]

Prebates up to the level of poverty? wtf?

The prebates are a tax credit, not a social program. The assumption is that everyone will spend up to the poverty level, so they get a check every month to credit those taxes back to them that they will be paying. Without the prebate, the FairTax is just a sales tax.