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kymar57 Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:33 PM
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GOP $100 dollar gas "rebate" proposal
WTF? At least when they gave billions to millionaires in tax cuts, he gave me $300(of my money).So now the price of my support for this sorry-ass admin is down to $100(of my money)? WTF?




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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:34 PM
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1. Oh...like...WoW....
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MacDuff Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:35 PM
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2. at today's prices
two tanks of gas.....and the $ goes right back in the pocket of Big Oil....
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:41 PM
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12. It's another tax rebate for Big Oil!
Only this time, it's $100 X 40,000,000 (or whatever number of drivers or families qualify).

That's quite a chunk of change and all in one lump.
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Robbie Michaels Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:35 PM
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3. I Didn't Get A Dime From BushCo
So what's this about getting $100?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:37 PM
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5. No one did; giving everyone a $100 rebate for gas was discussed
today to appease us, like that would do it.:mad:
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Robbie Michaels Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 06:03 PM
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18. That Won't Work
I'm happy that I spend less than $40 a month on gas (for now, anyway). I used to spend $300+ when I had my old job. :nuke:
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:36 PM
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4. The Bribery party wants to Bribe us? How surprising.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:44 PM
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14. lol
that pic always cracks me up....what a buffoon
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 12:37 PM
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26. I like the look on Putin's face.
Like he's looking over to * and thinking to himself, "So this is the twit who thinks he can look into my eyes and see my soul? Just how stupid are those Americans!"
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:38 PM
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6. It SHOULD piss SUV drivin' ppl off since it'll barely fill up tanks once..
....fucktarded proposal IMO. :nopity:
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:38 PM
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7. 30 pieces of silver in exchange for ANWR -- no thanks
Edited on Thu Apr-27-06 05:40 PM by AtomicKitten
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 07:33 PM
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22. Exactly
Now they can demagogue something til the cows come home. "Democrats don't want you to have $100. They want to give it to a caribou" Or we can just give them their way, which would probably be worse. The 60 day gas tax holiday is equally lame. Why not do something about the problem instead of throwing your pocket change into the street?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:38 PM
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8. I read somehwere here today that for giving those checks out they
want drilling in anwar in return, at least the gop does.
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:39 PM
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9. Better hope those checks are good.
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Rex_Goodheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:40 PM
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10. OK..
We should all vow to use that $100 to defeat the Republicans at the polls.

To whom should I give it?

I'm thinking to the John Edwards campaign.
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flobee1 Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:43 PM
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13. Think local
start with the house and senate
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:40 PM
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11. A bandaid. Where's that Bush supporter with the purple heart
bandaid on her chin?
What does she think about that $ 100 rebate?
I hope someone, maybe a monk, has enough guts to buy $ 100 worth of gas, and set them self on fire.
Sometimes, it takes a tragic statement to get people moving.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:51 PM
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15. What about people on fixed income and long-term unemployed?
These GOP "proposals" seem to always let the rich stick their snouts into the till and cut out people who don't have enough earned income to file a tax return. The folks hurt the most get raped and the fat cats (including the CEOs!!) still get some shekels that mean little to them.
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Imalittleteapot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:53 PM
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16. Another rediculous GOP stunt to swoon
their idiot supporters and would-be supporters. This is laughable. :rofl:
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 05:57 PM
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17. it adds $100 per taxpayer to the deficit
(not to mention the cost of administrating the check) and in effect, goes directly to big oil. government subsidy of oil profits added to the deficit.

no thanks.

and temporary suspension of the federal gas tax? that's fucking retarded, too.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 12:51 PM
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28. I wonder if this $100 will be "paid back" on April 15, 2007?
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the $300 "rebates" of 2001 (which I didn't receive) turn out to be "advances" on the 2002 tax return?

From the Libertarians:

WASHINGTON, DC -- Here's a shocker: The income tax rebate checks now arriving in Americans' mailboxes could mean you'll get a smaller income tax refund than you expected next year -- or that you might actually have to pay $300 or $600 more in taxes.

That's because the check is not a rebate on taxes you paid last year, but an "advance rebate" on the taxes you are paying this year, the Libertarian Party noted today.

So, if you're due a refund when you file your tax forms in early 2002, it will be $300 per person lower than it otherwise would have been. And if you are unlucky enough to owe taxes, your bill could be up to $300 per person higher.

Surprised?

...more...
http://www.umich.edu/~umisl/lnews/8901.htm
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 06:05 PM
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19. A hunnert bucks cashmoney ...., or a $200 gift certificate to WalMart.
Feh ......
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demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 06:27 PM
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20. That'll buy a tank and a half of gas for me. Big deal!
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 07:19 PM
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21. A check in the mail with a GOP political message attached.
That's what they did last time. It should be illegal.
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 01:58 AM
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23. What a joke! I just finished the first pages of American Theocracy
by Kevin Phillips in which he gives the lowdown on OIL. Basically, the supplies are almost gone, and with it, America will go. And these assholes are talking $100 tax rebate???
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 11:54 AM
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25. They can keep the $100
It might go to better use to start a radical and intensive alternative feul program.

If they want to do something symbolic, they can reinstall the solar panels that Reagan removed from the White House in 1981.
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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 12:45 PM
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27. Pure Bushie Phony Bull
See my append

The short range solution is to sic Eliot Spitzer on them.

The long range solution is to push CAFE up to 45-50 mpg. And that's only temporary -- see "The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century" by James Howard Kunstler
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