Sawzaw, income taxes are not the only taxes. About half the taxes the average person pays in each year are NOT income tax, they are other forms of taxation that are built into society at every level of monetary exchange, and everybody pays them, including the poorest people. They are inescapable unless you vanish into the wilderness, live off the land in a leanto or a teepee, and stop using money altogether.

To give poor people a tax rebate is to give them a rebate from all those other taxes...not from income tax they never paid.