Did you do your part in voting for a conservative?
No. Not a hoax.
Except the check is actually to be made out to me and sent to my address.
That part is in error.
It is a scam.
The federal gov't would send you a letter - they own a postal service, don'tcha know?
It's called "Phishing" by an unscrupulous phony non-profit. I got one today that was made to look like it was from the Washington Mutual Bank! Tried to forward it to spoof@wamu.com but my ISP wouldn't let it be forwarded. I thought that was strange since their crap-trap spam eliminator didn't keep me from getting it in the first place.
FY 2003 federal expenditures were $2,158 billion...
FY 2003 interest on the debt was $318 billion or roughly 14.7%
Note: we ran a deficit in 2003, collections were only $1,782 billion, so...
17.8% of our taxes went to pay interest on the debt!!!
So... if I get the jist of this
The National Debt is $7,600,000,000,000.
We are to send in a check for $7.60 to the Gov't to reduce the debt.
The sender of the email has a goal of reducing the debt by $7,000,000,000 by July 4th.
Soooooooo..... all he has to do is find 921,052,632 Americans to each write a check for $7.60. In a country the population of under 300,000,000, this will be hard to do.
However..... if by some miracle he can reduce the debt by $7,000,000,000 by July 4th, the National Debt will have been reduced to:
$7,593,000,000,000
He should look for an additional 828,947,368,400 people with checkbooks.