The “Fair” Tax Creates Huge New Welfare Scheme

Proponents have been too clever by half.

by Rod D. Martin
April 4, 2006

Dear ____________,

I just listened to a "Fair" Tax proponent get interviewed on CNBC. And suddenly, he brought the whole issue into incredibly clear focus.

The scheme "untaxes" the poor by sending them a government rebate check each month for the amount of the government's estimate of how much they spent in sales tax.

In other words, we teach every poor person in America to count on, to depend on, to expect and feel entitled to, a monthly government check.

This, added to the fact that sales taxes always go up, never go down, and always fuel bigger and bigger government wherever they're enacted, is the best argument against the sales tax I've heard yet. The "Fair" Tax is the most radical scheme ever proposed for the endless expansion of government and the total dependency of the poor, even the poor not officially on welfare! It will teach them all to be "dependent" and "entitled". And just watch the political fights over changes to the estimates and the resulti…