| Eomund said: Now that is an honest concern which I also have. The only way I can answer that is to say that removing the income tax (along with corporate, capital gains, etc.) will also remove the disincentive to work. There will always be lazy bums leeching off the system, but that isn't an issue the FairTax addresses and therefore isn't an argument the FairTax should be attacked on. This is a seperate issue of Welfare Reform. I want welfare reform to wean people off of government assistance. This is another debate, but as a quick aside since the "Great Society" and the "War on Poverty" under Johnson, the percentage of poor to our population has remained the same. We haven't solved it after throwing about $6 trillion at it. Before those programs the percentage would fluctuate with the economy. |
It creates an even bigger welfare problem however, that's how it addresses it. As everyone who meets the requirments have a right to the check, and none of the requirmenets for the prebate is that one of your family members work or have worked in the past. The government is more or less providing everyone with food, water and other life essentials by taking money more so from those who spend more.
Also, there is a secondary problem in that to sign up for the prebate tax you need an address. Many hardworking people live out of motels in the winter months and their cars in the summer months. Many of these people at or below the poverty level would not be eligable for the prebate
Get rid of the address requirement and EVERYONE will sign up for the prebate, including the homeless and the like, which while great would once again lead to that "extending welfare" thing as the amount of money that would go to them each month as a prebate would likely be way more then our government spends per person on the homeless now when you consider howmuch more it would cost in infrastructure and that we'd likely keep a number of our welfare and other such programs.. Which would seem to indicate costs would be much much higher then expected.
