Kasz216 on 11 January 2008
| Eomund said: ^^ Great review Sensei. Glad to know that I was not wrong about where you stood. Again Kasz, The FairTax doesn't tax education (college or otherwise). That is considered an Investment, and therefore isn't taxed as consumption. The reason kids don't have a full payment under the Prebate is because they don't have to pay rent, or anything like that. I understand that because you have kids you might need to get a bigger place, but ultimately whose responsible for having the kid (and I am not suggesting they get an abortion)? If a person cannot afford kids, they shouldn't have them. If a person has them anyway I consider that a form of abuse and neglect stemming from that person's inability to be responsible for their own reproductive system. If they cannot be responsible with that through easy means, birth control pills, etc., then how are they going to be responsible for a kid? Anyways, my whole platform is personal responsibility. Should we the people (or government) lend a helping hand to those people who are not doing well? Yes, there should be some form of a safety net system. It should not be a life long support for those people however. The Prebate only is refunded for the essential goods needed to survive, hence why it is based on the poverty level. Therefore the Prebate is not a welfare program, but a tax refund on the essentials of living. If we were to not apply the FairTax on those essential goods already, the rate on goods the FairTax would apply to would be very high. |
See, that's where I think the platform fails. The culture of the United States does everything it can to run away from personal responsibility. Even in our political system, whenever something goes wrong it's the presidents fault, or congresses fault, and not our fault for electing said idiots.
Suddenly thrusting personal responsibility on a lot of these people would be dangerous to country stability.
