Slims

Are you familiar with how the fair tax actually works?

Right now a poor person can get money back despite not paying ANY taxes. It's a reward for failure.

Under the fair tax, all spending is taxed, but a rebate is issued for the taxes paid on poverty-level spending. So a person who is living off the basics would pay sales tax up front but would receive a check every month as compensation for taxes paid, thus paying $0 in net taxes.

Of course, everyone gets the same check for the same amount...you should shed a tear at how egalitarian it is. Everyone who spends above what is required for basic sustenance pays the full tax...no tax breaks, no shortcuts, no exceptions, it all gets taxed evenly.

And yes, I do expect the lazy poor to pull themselves up by their boot straps. Nearly all my friends come from very humble backgrounds and they have done just that. Employers pay people what they are worth. If you are making minimum wage it is because you are *nearly* worthless to your employer. If you don't like that then do something to increase your value...get an education, work harder, stop smoking crack, etc.

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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence