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Again, it's a zero sum game and you are inventing a non existent problem.
The government is giving back money that they should not have taken in the first place. They are taxing everybody MORE than they really intend to, and are giving back the excess in the form of a refund check.
It's not a hard concept. If my operating budget is 100 dollars a month and I take in 150 dollars in taxes, the extra 50 dollars should be given back and doing so won't bankrupt the gov.
The tax percentage was set with that rebate in mind. The level of spending OVER what the rebate covers will generate tax revenue comperable to what our current, complicated system rakes in.
The government isn't rebating what they are not taking in, therefore they are not in the red.
I can understand other objections to this tax plan and there is a lot of room for debate, but I honestly don't understand why this is a sticking point. It is a rebate to compensate people for the taxes they would have to pay on poverty level spending simply because a uniform sales tax does not discriminate well.
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