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MORFORD: 10 ways to blow your tax rebate
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/2/8 | Mark Morford

Posted on 05/02/2008 8:03:31 AM PDT by SmithL

Gas, video games, meditation, booze. What, you were planning on paying bills? As if --

Here's the bad news: Your little recession-deflecting tax rebate? No rebate at all. Not even close.

It's more like this: You've been continuously mugged and beaten and robbed blind for the past seven years straight, and as you lay there on the cold, hard economic ground, bleeding and gasping and wondering what the hell happened to your vacation time and your health care plan and your mortgage payment, your attackers scoff and leer and toss a couple of bloodstained nickels on your pulverized face and mutter, here sucker, have some bus fare, and then they cackle and stomp away with all your loot and dignity and hope, back to the White House from whence they came.

What, too harsh? Not really. It's a lovely feeling, made even more sweetly ironic by the fact that Congress will likely soon shove through another $108 billion in war funds like a giant gallstone through our collective fiscal urethra. Right there, that's about 500 bucks for each and every adult human in America, baristas and Baptists and NASCAR fans alike.

Do you see? Your "economic stimulus" check is meaningless, an empty gesture, a trifling crumb of recompense after robbing you blind via insane gas prices, infrastructure meltdowns, massive failed wars that aren't really wars. Thanks for the bogus check, Dubya, now where can I buy a sliver of our missing national dignity? Oh, that's right.

So then. Here are your bloody nickels, America. Think of it as a "recession whippit," because trust me, its quickie high won't last long. What will you do with it? Pay off the porn bill? Hit the Vegas strip?...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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`nuf said

1 posted on 05/02/2008 8:03:33 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Aren’t these tax rebate checks considered taxable income? We will have to report these rebates on our 2008 taxes.


2 posted on 05/02/2008 8:06:21 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: SmithL

He really is a terrible and deranged writer. Waste of 02.


3 posted on 05/02/2008 8:07:39 AM PDT by enough_idiocy (Holding my nose in 2008. I disagree with McCain on lots of issue, but with the Democrats on more.)
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To: caver

No


4 posted on 05/02/2008 8:08:49 AM PDT by SoDak (Anyone but Obama)
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To: SmithL
King of the run-on sentence!

Any Morford headline with "blow" in it make me very nervous, too.
5 posted on 05/02/2008 8:11:10 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Wakka-ding-hoy!)
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To: SmithL

So, this goober wants more Democrats and Bush’s tax cuts to be allowed to end? This is going to keep us from being beat down? Liberalism is a mental disorder.


6 posted on 05/02/2008 8:12:13 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: SmithL

I’m going to buy new computers with mine. Miss Morford, on the other hand, will probably blow its on amyl nitrate, sex toys, and gerbil food.

}:-)4


7 posted on 05/02/2008 8:12:18 AM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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To: caver

One of you married folks who don’t need it to just catch up on the past due bills should donate it to the FR April - May freepathon. It still needs $1200.


8 posted on 05/02/2008 8:12:36 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Do we really want Huma answering the White House phone at 3 AM?)
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To: SoDak

“No”

I guess I’ve heard wrong.


9 posted on 05/02/2008 8:15:40 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: SmithL
"It's more like this: You've been continuously mugged and beaten and robbed blind for the past seven years straight"

I wish liberals would make up their mind- are they FOR govt. taking away all our money to 'provide' us with things or against it?

10 posted on 05/02/2008 8:16:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: enough_idiocy
I disagree, I think he is a very good and deranged writer.
11 posted on 05/02/2008 8:18:54 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: SmithL

I understand there is a powerful prescription for PMS these days, perhaps someone should clue Ms Morford in..


12 posted on 05/02/2008 8:20:16 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: SmithL

>>>>MORFORD: 10 ways to blow your tax rebate<<<<<<<

Hey, we should listen to him. If anyone is an expert on blowing, its Morf.


13 posted on 05/02/2008 8:21:52 AM PDT by envisio (If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. 8^O)
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To: SmithL

Do someone actually pay this Clymer to write this crap? Was this originally written in crayon?


14 posted on 05/02/2008 8:31:53 AM PDT by anoldafvet (To liberals, building a wall across the Mexican border is a violation of the Voting Rights Act.)
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To: SmithL
(( OR )) we could donate it to the federal, state or local government(s) as an extra TAX gift because we love the government so much.. LIKE GOOOD brain washed SOCIALISTS...

Since the various governments are sucking the life out of the economy as it is like a Fiscal Vampire.. why not offer OUR neck to them/it..

CAPITALISM creates wealth.... Socialism uses that wealth UP..
Democracy is the social disease that causes the symptom of socialism.. The word DEMOCRACY has become a HOLY in the America and the world generally.. But it is MOB RULE... Always has been always will be.. Rule by TRIBES of people.. with an elite.. ruleing class.. Tribal Lawm like SHARIA..
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Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx

15 posted on 05/02/2008 8:32:56 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: SmithL

Going to buy a new hot water tank with part of my refund. The tank’s been going out for the last couple of weeks. I wonder if those Rinai tankless tanks that Rush is always advertising are worth it? Anybody have any experience with them?


16 posted on 05/02/2008 8:51:15 AM PDT by apillar
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To: SmithL

Cheer up Morph. Think of all the tweezing and manicures you can buy for yourself with the rebate. Maybe even have some leftover change for a piercing, to surprise your lover.


17 posted on 05/02/2008 9:00:32 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: dashing doofus
Shoot, think I'll buy an M1A1. That is a good way to spend that refund. Supporting the 2nd Amendment.
18 posted on 05/02/2008 9:18:04 AM PDT by coincheck (Pray for my oldest son, he is in Iraq. Keeping us free.)
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To: anoldafvet

Either crayon or lipstick


19 posted on 05/02/2008 9:33:22 AM PDT by SmithL (Reject Obama's Half-Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
King Queen of the run-on sentence!

Fixed it.

20 posted on 05/02/2008 9:33:50 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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