Back in the day, Puff Daschle said that wasn't enough to buy a muffler. And you'll never guess what fell out from under my car the very week I got that check.
They can keep the $800, I won’t miss what they already stole. If they want make an impact on most of us, they should cut the corporate tax rate and watch equity-based 401k’s and IRA’s soar.
They’re sending people nothing. It was THEIR money to begin with.
If anything is needed, it is an across-the-board permanent tax cut.
The printing presses are being oiled and warmed up.
Printing 200 Billion dollars might take a few weeks though.
What I need is a laptop for a writers’ conference in March. I need one that will hold a fairly large amount of material [book manuscript capacity]. Any suggestions?
We can borrow the money from the Chinese to buy Chinese stuff.
I remember that quote... I sent the puffster an email telling him that for many of us in "the real world," $300 is actually a useful sum of money. In my case, at the time, it was a month and a half's car payment, or more than 1/2 of my monthly mortgage payment. If he didn't have any use for HIS $300 tax rebate (which was, btw, considered to be taxable income, so we did have to pay taxes on the rebate! lol), that he was welcome to send me his check.
Needless to say, I never heard back from him.
Mark
Don’t spend it all, save enough to pay the state and federal income taxes tht you will owe on it!
I think giving people their own money back is always a good idea. Most of them will spend it and someone will be making it and pay taxes on it next year.
However...
Everybody needs to be aware that if the federal government wasn't spending our tax dollars on constitutionally unauthorized projects then our federal taxes would be lower anyway. This post attempts to explain how FDR's constitutionally unauthorized New Deal programs like Social Security fostered many other constitutionally illegal federal spending programs that taxpayers are paying for today.
Anybody who feels inclined to comment about the above referenced post, please do so in this thread.
As I have stated elsewhere, the people need to wise up to the very serious problem of widespread federal government corruption, particularly where 10th A.-ignoring federal spending is concerned. The people need to quit sitting on their hands and petition lawmakers, judges and justices who are not upholding their oaths to defend the Constitution, demanding that they resign from their jobs.
The sad fact is that MOST of the American sheeple will neither remember nor care that the “money” they get back was THEIRS to begin with.
Even sadder will be the fact that most of them will get all warm and fuzzy when they think about how wonderful and generous government is.
We’re probably doomed — and deserve our fate.
I figure I’ve donated somewhere north of 1/4 million dollars to the federal gov’t in my lifetime.(not counting fica). If they want to send me a check for anything, I’ll take it. Other than perhaps some bombs to blow up arab blankblankers that really deserve it, I can’t think they’ve done much of anything with my money that I approve of.
I’ll put the money straight towards my monthly costs which have now gone up due to inflation, ethanol and the oil impact on everything. I heat with firewood...even my guys I’ve known for years want an extra hit to cover the fuel they blow on delivery.
............A stimulus must be timely......
Before the election, but not so long it will be spent and forgotten on election day.
The government giving people money...
...sounds a lot like the Roman Empire giving people bread and circuses.
How much longer until our government starts giving everyone a daily stipend? For an economic ‘boost’, of course.
(And can anyone remember what happened to Rome?)
$800...???..cool now I can buy 400 signs that say “Dump McCain” the liberal plant
This time they may send every income taxpayer a larger check.
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Looks discriminatory to me. Non taxpayers should be included if we’re really serious about spending our way out of trouble. Even illegals could help in this regard. They spend too, don’t they? /sarc
I didn't get one. The government decided I made too much money to deserve some of it back. I suspect the same will happen with this one.
Memo to president Bush, Congress, and all the economic “experts” who’ve decided how government can “save” our economy: take your $800 rebate and shove it!
Anyone with half a brain knows what’s wrong with our economy: government spending has expanded far beyond anything resembling fiscal sanity. Every other entity which operates on the basis of money coming in versus money going out is constrained by one immutable reality: if the latter exceeds the former, sooner or later you go bankrupt.
Our political class, however, adheres to completely different “principles:” 1. government NEVER shrinks, it only expands at differing rates; 2. if that rate is less than we think we’re entitled to, we call it a “cut;” 3. we will spend whatever we want, irrespective of the funds actually available; 4. we will make “promises,” aka Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security that will become impossible to keep; 5. we will never go bankrupt because we can print money–even if that money becomes next to worthless. 6. we will never plan for the long term because getting re-elected enshrines short-term thinking.
Don’t think for a minute these bums don’t know how to really fix the economy. It’s just that doing something for the good of the country doesn’t remotely compare with doing something good for themselves.
And Americans are furious with government for precisely that reason. What we see is a bunch of self-serving fat cats whose first commandment is “do as I say, not as I do.” Have to be responsible with money? We don’t. Have to prepare for your future? We don’t. We can run this country right into the ground and every single one of us will still be sitting pretty. Have to do without when times are tough? Not us. There’s no such thing as tough times when you’re spending other peoples’ money–and racking up nine trillion bucks of IOUs in the process.
The public’s anger, however, is largely worthless—and we have no one but ourselves to blame. See if this sounds familiar: all those other Congressmen stink, but I’m going to re-elect mine because he “brings home the bacon.” And you wonder why most of these folks get the sense they’re bullet-proof?
Congress won’t put the interests of the country before their own until the American public makes it clear they can’t be bought off with a “bridge to nowhere,” a “museum commemorating Woodstock,” or any other “goodies” whose principle aim is to buy your vote–one earmark after another.
Aren’t you tired of being a sucker? Or is eight hundred bucks enough to buy you off–again?
The gubmint giving me back some of my money...How nice of them.
If Americans go to Wal Mart and blow the $800 on a piece-of-crap HDTV made in China, how is that going to help the AMERICAN economy?