[TaxPayer2000]

"I got back $5600 on my taxes. Instead of buying my kids the latest Jordans or fancy electronics I paid my rent for the YEAR. I'm a single mom and I do it all buy myself on a minimum wage job. I kno that a roof over my kids head is what's important. My kids don't want for anything because my priorities are straight. And this also means I will have that extra 450 a month to do things with my kids."

[Theoria]

Pretty sweet deal. Plays the system to her advantage.

[Lion Den Dan]

This dummy is making minimum wage with kids on hand, how is there enough being with held from her earnings for a 5 thousand dollar refund?

[TexasTransplant]

And Now “Common Sense” is News

Don’t know who said it but they said something like “Common sense is rarely encountered despite being common”

[MuttTheHoople]

Rent only $509 a month? Love to live there.

[ExNewsExSpook]

She got it half-right; should take a portion of the money that would go to the rent and invest it. She’d have quite a nest egg—and sooner than she might think.

Sad, but most young Americans have no idea of the concept—or power—of compound interest.

[Phil DiBasquette]

What kind of dunce pre-pays their rent giving their landlord an interest free loan

[Intolerant in NJ]

"I'm a single mom and I do it all by myself on a minimum wage job"...hmmmm - minimum wage job - two kids - shouldn't have owed any taxes at all, but got $5600 "refund" - why do I think she's paying her rent and proud of it with tax money actually paid in by that mom down the street who won't be able to take a break with a trip to McDonald's with her kids this month, the dad around the corner who will miss the outing to see the Yankees play this year with his family, the old lady next door who will be able to afford three fewer taxi trips to see her husband in the nursing home this month because their tax money went to pay for this lady's "refund"????.....

[upsdriver]

A $5600 tax refund on a minimum wage job? That’s outrageous.

[dragnet2]

In many places in CA, that would cover 1 or 2 months rent.

[Ann Archy]

HOW did she get $5600.00 back on a minimum wage job??? She most likely paid NO FEDERL income Taxes, but she got $5600.00 from OTHER taxpayers!! Something is terribly wrong.

[Organic Panic]

It’s just another form of welfare. I guarantee she didn’t pay the IRS an extra $5400.