[Jesse]

"...we're going to spend it on a long-overdue vacation.
Are we blipping your radar, yet?"

Yep. Now a bunch of people who didn't pay the tax in the first place get to take a vacation or buy a new tv, courtesy of people like me without children who subsidize your child tax credit. Why would that tick me off?

At least you could say, thank you. Or do just want me to send along another couple of hundred bucks so you can buy your kids new vacation clothes too? We could just cut out the IRS as middleman and I could send along a money order, would that be ok?

Spineless GOP.

[newgeezer]

Now a bunch of people who didn't pay the tax in the first place get to take a vacation ... At least you could say, thank you.

Let's get one thing clear. I'll be getting a rebate of my taxes. They're still keeping a boatload of what I paid in income taxes. If you're looking to rail on people who're profiting from income redistribution -- the people who receive more than the income tax they paid in -- you're barking up the wrong tree.

I choose to thank the people whose kids I hope will be enough to keep Social Security afloat for another 25 years so that I can start to see a return on my compulsory "investment."