That’ll teach them to give me money!

You can work 50 hours/week at minimum wage and pay no taxes. Not all poor people are slackers. And not all slackers are poor.

This is a good point. I’ll bet a bunch of our lower enlisted will also fall into that employed but paying no taxes category, and many of them work their butts off.

My sibs works their butts off at their jobs and pay gobs of taxes. Why don’t they get theirs? Some rebate! Doesn’t my brother get credit for having a successful business that employs a bunch of other people? Creating jobs isn’t stimulating the economy?

As for unemployment, my 21 year old son with a high school diploma and 4 years of work experience got 3 job offers within 2 days of applying. There’s not an unemployment problem. The summer of 2002 when there wasn’t a single IT job posted when I was unemployed, THAT was a problem.

And is it even going to be a REAL rebate anyway? The last one wasn’t.

We paid tax money… we get it back. Except of course, some who didn’t pay get it back… just overlook that part of the argument.

I say: any money that comes to me instead of the government is money well spent. Even if we use it to pay debts, we reduce the amount of interest we pay, leaving more money for consumption of other goods. And, no offense to the debtors here, but if you did it once, you will do it again. If you put $600 on your credit card bill, you’ll have it back on in 3 months. Think back-to-school computer or summer vacation or… you get the point.

And as to that cartoon: baloney! You can’t get a decent handgun for $600 much less a long weapon. And $7 for a six-pack?!!?? What are you people drinking????? It ain’t no Stella Artois.

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To recycle something I said on another board today:

…short of some grass roots Constitutional tack-on’s to go to a Fair Tax and strict 2 term limits for Congressmen (with no lobbying afterwards), we’ll always be getting the Vaseline end of the stick. Then when the long term filibuster blowhards are gone, start doing some real reform to start capping out of control lawyers & lawsuits, and reform the campaigns to where you don’t need millions of dollars to get elected – you need to be able to debate the issues and nothing more. We have public broadcasting… let’s use it.

And if elected President, I WILL see to it that Shiner Bock is available in all 50 states! Now THAT is pandering.

The Democrats wre first telling us we need to remove the tax cuts becuase more money is needed to expand the government. Now they’re giving us (along with Republicans in a bi-partisan effort) money back in the forma of a rebate. This tells me that our government – by even the Democrats admission by deed – has too much of our money. That’s gonna make a strong case aganist tax increases going forward.

Now let’s look at what this ‘rebate’ does. First, it is riddled with class warfare (and outright tax wlfare) in the way it is being doled out. Work real hard – get nothing. Do nothing – get a rebate. HUH?

And then there is a big unintended consequence. Great – we put money onto consumer’s hands. The money is spent on TVs, cars, electronics, clothing – which means most of the money will flow out of the country and most of those items – or the parent companies – reside overseas. This will do nothing to improve our industrial base to make the econonmic boom permanent. Oh, if people actually do the right thing and save the money – wait for the bureacrats to complain about that too.

On January 25th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, Barry F. said:
Oooooooh! I’m feeling over-stimulated.

That is what happens when you get scre_ed.