So Bush sends you a check for $800 if you're single or $1600 if you're married

what will you do with it to help "Stimulate the economy"?

Use it for gas money or pay off the credit card.

hahahahahaha!!!!!

Put a carrot in front of the wage slaves and they will keep on slaving for more.

And, it's the rabbles' coinage in the first place!!!

(But while I would be happy for some extra bucks, it doesn't change my opinion about the the total clusterf!@# that the Republicans and their silent accomplices the Democrats have wrecked on the economy and the people.)

i'll spend a $200 on getting my veggie garden going and the rest into savings

My kids have been asking if they can plant a garden -- now is as good a time as any!!

isn't a rebate it's an advance of the next year's refund

How's that go again, Georgie?

I don't get a refund. I always end up paying. I guess I'll just have to send back the $800.

n/t

The last time they did this I had to give it back!

That ridiculous refund we got last time went RIGHT BACK to the IRS the following year.

But I'm sure most of alcoholic, Survivor-addicted America has forgotten all about that by now.

ridiculous exercise?

Since there are 2 of us and we'll get the larger amount, there may be enough $ leftover to build a greenhouse out of recycled materials-old windows etc. This has been on our wish list for a very very long time.

Using the money for a veggie garden makes me feel like we're flipping the bird at * & Co. because no doubt they want us to spend the money at Walmart or Best Buy.

Instead, it will be spent at the local garden nursery and architectural salvage stores! :evilgrin:


I think Al Gore would be proud! O8)

:hi:

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The other half, John Edwards :rofl:

he may be out of the race.... if so, would you donate it to whoever else is running in the Democratic party? Or would you use it for yourself?

Nt.

What to do, what to do?

And how come double if I get married? Do my bills get cut in half, the teenage boys somehow eat less, if I say "I do"?

Still, to me it sounds like they are using this as an opportunity to give another huge tax cut to the very wealthy. That isn't going to help the economy, and will hurt it in the long run.

The Republicans are telling us we're supposed to rely on savings for retirement and health care - yeah right.

More than half of the adult households in this country are headed by single (unmarried or divorced adults). Why the fuck are our needs considered less than the special rights "married" minority?

People need to stand up and say something about this - loudly. This crap that "married" people need money more than unmarried people has to end.

It's not like $800 will go very far. Between rent increases, higher fuel bills, supermarket prices, and banks, insurance companies, and utilities creating "service charges" out of thin air, you can bet the big companies will not only get their own big tax break, but will end up taking ours, too.

The tax tables for next year will be adjusted to take it away.

I would much rather they give $800 to every adult, regardless of income, so the very poor who can't pay taxes can benefit as well.


It's really about giving the very wealthy yet another tax cut.

The very wealthy should get a tax *increase*, not a decrease

This seems as wacky as that scheme to send each tube-owning consumer a check to buy a digital converter box when the government FORCES television stations to broadcast in digital. As much as I like the clarity of digital signals (over the air), they couldn't just buy the boxes and give them to people, instead of issuing checks and sending people to private merchants?

By the way, I think many people now on useless cable system will soon discover they get fine reception over the airwaves with digital signals, and will abandon the cable networks with their all-night advertising, their multiple shove-Jesus-down-our-throats stations, and those inane home shoppin networks.

If TWO married people get $1600, that's the same as two single people getting $800. I think it's fair. (It's not like EACH of the married people get $1600. They each receive $800.)

i assume any single person you're not married to would get $800 - if they were married to you, they'd still get $800. doesn't that make sense? :shrug:

because EACH of you get the 800$ rebate.

Which is kinda what it's supposed to be for, right?

not actual regular working people. Remember right after 9/11 what he wanted us to do---go shopping!

that smirk of his tells how arrogant he is.

so when next years return is short, I wont be at a loss.

would " stimulate the economy".

To me that reads,

" go shopping, folks!"

:banghead:- Dear God, less than one year- HURRY!

The same" wise" advice he gave us after 9/11.

:sarcasm:

$800 is a lot to give back per person, and many will end up owing next year, and they won't be able to afford it.

send it to China.

it will help the economy slightly either way.

Great plan! :eyes:

Smoke and mirrors economics at its finest.

That trick never works! Never, ever, ever in 100 years!

:evilgrin:

:eyes: Nice of him to ignore those who might need it the most! How typically republican of him.

Compassionate my a$$.

I'm in graduate school AND work part-time teaching (at another college) so you know I get paid peanuts compared to full-time educators. My education credit ends up being 3-4 times my tax liability, so I end up getting none of these "rebates." Sure, it lowers my tax liability to zero (*actually, to a large negative) but if something is a "credit" which exceeds the liability, why don't we get carryover credit or a refund of that difference?

They're welfare for the well-off.

I would not take it. He can shove it.

:)

Just like all of my fatcat friends.


Phooey on all of you peasants using this money to pay bills or buy groceries. If you're not part of the richest 1% of this country, then get the hell out!

is tithe 10% and use the rest to pay bills. My condo fees just went up so I gotta use the other 90% for that. Whatever's left over I go on a shopping spree!

:D

Keep the parks open, etc.

More painful, I should think, and more symbolic when you throw his ass across the Potomac.

:grr:

Hekate

There is something funadmentally whacked about this. :eyes:

He figures you're rich if you make over $85,000/yr. Just heard that on CNN radio news this morning.

Now THAT is rich. :eyes:

his not so excellent adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan have thus far cost every american 20 grand for which we could be billed for, for decades.

Gas and oil and by extension, food costs have sky rocketed.

800 bucks is a fair trade for all of that. . .right. . .? /sarcasm

How to bribe the short sighted unwashed masses who are simply unable to do math and wowed by short term, and ultimately vacuous instant gratification.

Unbelievable, really. To think he's the first pRes with an MBA, it's mind blowing how utterly clueless he is about most americans' economic realities.

It reminds me of his professor from Harvard Business School who figured * would just end up trashing a few small businesses. Yikes.

If only and sheesh.

An economic policy perhaps brought to us in the spirit of Marie Antoinette. I'm sure at some over priced trendy place (probably in Dubai at the Halliburton cafeteria) one could pay 800 bucks for a piece of cake.

This is just a forward of next years tax return. That will really help the economy next year, but he doesn't care. he won't be the decider then.

ah the vicious circle of life. Our economy works like an old person driving in Florida. A big slow car with it's turn signal stuck on right going nowhere and causing gridlock.

The rest to my son's tuition.

It will probably be the latter I am sure.

Edit: Hmmm...but with the govt pushing HDTV, a new flat screen does sound pretty good - we need one anyway.

the new anesthesia equipment I need to get (to the tune of $3200).

at least part to Dennis Kucinich. The rest to Future Visions Foundation, Refugees International, Sufi Order International, etc, etc.

Then I'd put it away until next tax season, when I'd have to pay it back--but at least it probably would have made some money.

Sent my local Planned Parenthood the 300 clams ... and I sent the White House a thank-you note for allowing me to support women's reproductive freedom with such a nice donation.

Gotta think of a similar charitable donation that'll piss off the White House!!! Ideas???

Those would be paid ...

I might go out to dinner a couple of times ..

since I never do that that would be a real treat .

Start my garden , buy dirt etc...

:)

(killer) I need some Roundup for the backyard

It's my patriotic duty as an American citizen to stimulate the underground economy.

So in other words - beer. And lots of it. :beer: :evilgrin:

:sarcasm:

Though I really do want one...

They are quickly turning from Maypops into Willpops.

I'm caught up on my bills at the moment and am already saving a bit.

I'm thinking of picking up myself an M1 Garand, I already own an AK style rifle, but if I didnt I would get once since unfortunately our candidates seem to support a renewed assault weapons ban.

I gave some to Planned Parenthood "in honor of" George W. Bush and requested that they send him a card telling him so. (i.e., "A donation has been made in your name...")

We haven't talked about what we'd do this time. Mr. H may just want to bank it in honor of Bush's Recession.

Hekate

:)

I could easily see that going into the gas tank, to pay for the heating, increases in food and medicine. It's like the magic show of 2001...sure sounded good, but when you break it down, it does very little and doesn't go very far.

I'm going to start a Bold New Business Venture!

As I drive through the mean streets of this sordid city, I note all of the old, shabby furniture people have set out at the curb. Some of it's very good-quality furniture that just looks bad, needs repair or otherwise is salvageable. (The particle board crap people buy cheap can stay at the curb. I'm talking the stuff made from solid wood, of which there's plenty.

Here's what I figure: if I buy an old beater truck for $500 or so and put a couple hundred into it to make it run decent, I can collect this unloved, discarded furniture, take it home, fix and refinish it, and sell it to used furniture stores for good money.

Whatcha think..."Liberal Enterprises" or "Landfill Reduction Services" sound like a better name?

That's all we are to him, consumers. :puke:

Maybe I'll "stimulate the economy" by spending it in 2045.