Gen, it's a PREBATE. All they're doing is untaxing the basic necessities of life in a way that makes it easier on the business owners! Think about it this way, in my home state, when you go to the grocery store, the store owner has to pay somebody boucoups bucks to program the scanners to NOT charge tax on unprepared food items, and that cost is passed along to the consumer.
Under the FairTax, the store owners no longer have to do that, so the SAVINGS are passed along to the consumer. Their calculations also untax gasoline, basic clothing, and all of the other "basic necessities of life" so that NOBODY is being taxed merely for LIVING. Now, would you rather have the Federal government, you know, the same ones who can't really seem to decide of we need to be drilling off of our own coasts, or in ANWAR, decide exactly what the "basic necessities of life" are, and have to provide a specific list to the owners of every business in America, so that they don't tax those specific items, or isn't it a hell of a lot smarter to simply tell all the business's what the inclusive tax rate is going to be, and simply send a prebate check to every LEGAL American to compensate for the taxes, and let the Americans decide what specific "basic necessities" they want to spend their money on? No, if you have to produce a list of things that are not to be taxed, all you're doing is creating a new bureaucracy (that's going to cost billions to run) that will replace one of the ones that the FairTax eliminates.
That's the other great thing about the prebate, only LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS get the check, illegals don't, so they're finally going to be paying their fair share of taxes (that they're not paying now) when they come here to work (illegally), and spend their money in our stores, instead of being able to skirt around it by working strictly for cash, under the table, and not paying any taxes at all.
