To me a balanced budget bill and welfare reform should go ahead of the fair tax.
If we fix those two first, and find ways to get more results for our money... then it makes sense.
Passing the fair tax bill before a balanced budget bill is like putting the cart before the horse.
If I have a dog on the leash and i decide it's preferable to have a fence around my property to run around in, I build the fence first, then take of the leash, doing it the other way is foolhardy.
Social Security reform doesn't really need to be done, because if we get rid of social security taxes, all the government would have to do is make sure it pays what it owes.
After that though i'd like to see some studies done about how people think the fair tax will effect the Gini Index. As while "in a perfect world" the fair tax might make sense, i think the general culture of the United States might make the fair tax an abysmal failure, do to consumption being a major focal point of US culture.
Then there are the issues with having to register an address... as it's not just migrant workers that have this problem, there are plenty of citizens who work as waitresses at places like denys, or work in hotels etc, who have to sleep in there cars, or have very non-static workplaces.
So the dilemna of the prebate seems to be.
1) You require the address (like it does now) and those who work and are most in need end up not getting the prebate, making it somewhat useless.
2) You don't require an address and any legal US citizen can walk in and get his 10,000 grand a year. (Split up over 12 months.) (Which actually might get more dems on your side there.) Which sets up the biggest welfare program ever, in which no restrictions are placed and which anyone can decide to not work at all and collect that 10,000 grand. Which, i don't see how that wouldn't be like socialism.
If your going with the prebate option you pretty much have to go with B. That is if you absribe to the fact that to be fair this rebate needs to be provided even to the rich.
