show me a plan where you can lead a simple lifestyle and neither pay nor receive $ to/from the government and i'll support it.
So many Americans paying little or no federal taxes makes for a natural spending constituency. It's like me in the restaurant: What do I care about extravagance if you're footing the bill?
--Walter Williams
Go buy a pacific island, and roll your own.
To remove perception of the tax burdens of the individual, is to remove the goad which assures accountability of government to the electorate. Federal tax rates are high and government grows ever larger because a majority of the electorate do not perceive proportionately the burden their demand for largesse imposes on the minority of citizens.
The siren call for representation without taxation is the formula that got us where we are at today. The ability to hide or disguise taxation from the view of large sectors of the electorate allows the Congress to get away with the creation of the evergrowing monster that it fosters.
Liberty and freedom have a price, responsibility. If that the perception of that price is avoided there are no brakes on the growth of government, the ultimate result is the end of freedom through rampant socialism.
my only point was that if basic food products were untaxed the poor would not have to be compensated and you would not need to set up this whole welfare-like social engineering prebate structure that down the road will be manipulated buy congress.