[Consort]

Its the IRS/Fed giving these folks who didn't pay a $400 check, free money; your money.

I don't like it either, if it's totally the case. Can we say that the $400 is coming from only from us to pay them? Or, can we say that the $400 is coming from the sales taxes and other non-income taxes that those people already paid and from any payroll taxes paid on their wages?

If you choose to give a poor person a check for $400 than that is great and your business to do it.

If I am paying then so are you whether we choose to or not.

[genxer]

Bottom line, these people didn't qualify, because they didn't pay into the system.

They've got back 100 percent of what was taken out of their paychecks and then some. If you are saying that they are entitled to this money because their employer paid a payroll tax for them that's even more wrong.

I'm not sure what sales tax you are talking about because last time I checked we didn't have a national sales tax, just local.

On giving $400 I meant that is if you wanted to make a charitible contribution, like to a church to sponser a family.

I'm getting the feeling that you feel these people have a right to get back more than what they paid in. Keep in mind may already qualify for earn income tax credits which yeilds them $4000 in a redistributed income check.

Its insanity. You don't give people back more than they pay in period. Its a welfare program plain an simple.