It's obvious people don't understand how politics works. When you want to win an election ... you don't shoot yourself in the foot by keeping part of the electorate from getting in on the rebate. That's what the dems discovered when they realized that the Rino's voting no for the tax cut had caused that item to be removed from the bill. The dems know that most of the "don't pay tax" people are their constituients - they had to do something to make it look like Bush didn't want to help them - it has backfired - ONCE AGAIN - because now the repubs get to add back in a couple of items they really wanted.
The repubs DIDN'T CAVE! They got an increase in the tax credit for higher income people - many of whom I personally know - who are hard working people who have children - who weren't going to get the rebate. What we got was a erasure of the marriage penalty related to this tax cut.
All you DU's can now go back into your cave - THE REPUBS DIDN'T CAVE - GIVE IT UP!!
The repubs DIDN'T CAVE! They got an increase in the tax credit for higher income people -
Both of these provisions were in the original bill, which the Democrats said was too costly.
So, now they are BOTH back in.
Yes, those who don't pay taxes shouldn't get a "rebate", but there was no way a tax cut would have passed without that provision being included.
The Dems can complain all they want to now about how costly the tax cuts are, but they have just added to that cost.