It has nothing to do with welfare. It's the same thing as the personal and dependent deduction on income tax. When you claim the personal and dependent deductions on your income tax return, does that mean you're on welfare? It's the same thing. According to the Rasmussen Poll I posted for this thread, Americans still want their deductions, they still want their mortgage interest "welfare". They would rather have their "tax welfare" than lower tax rates.
Under the income tax, no one pays income taxes unless you have income above the sum of the personal and dependent deductions, earned income tax credit, child care tax credit and mortgage interest deduction. So .... put that group with the group that has no income at all because they're out of the work force and you're a long, long, long way from "everyone should pay some taxes". In 2012, 47% of our population paid no income tax at all, it's probably higher now.
Based on this poll I posted, it appears Americans will want their Rebate under the FairTax, because they don't want to pay federal tax on what they believe are their essentials, even if it would mean lower tax rates and less tax for them overall. It's like they can't do the math in their heads while on the phone with a pollster.
I love the FairTax, the economists who came up with it were brilliant, they thought of everything. The 10 economists spent 3 years doing the work on it, and they did a really good job. I can't find one thing wrong with it so far. I'd prefer a lower tax rate than the Rebate, but I understand why they have the Rebate, and that's because most of the population prefers it.
By the way, the government didn't have anything to do with the FairTax. It was developed by private business people.
Anyway, I think for this year, they're going to tweak the income tax again and I hope that works out because if they do what Trump is asking for, our companys will start expanding again and many many of those companies with operations overseas will start bringing them home in the matter of a few months. When yo see what happens by dropping this corporate and business rate to 15%, just imagine what it would be like under the FairTax, where their rate is 0%. JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!!