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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:33 PM
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What Should I Do With The Tax Return?
Okay, so the GOP is going to give everyone $800.

The way I look at it, it's $800 I wouldn't have had, so spending it isn't going to hurt.

What would be the best way to spend it and get revenge on the neocons and their Milton-Friedman-disaster-economics?

Give it the candidate of my choice?

Donate it to The Clinton Global Initiative? Al Gore?

Please post your suggestions in reply.

Thank you.
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:35 PM
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1. Send it to Hugo Chavez! :) n/t
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:37 PM
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2. Amnesty international or Unicef?
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:40 PM
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3. ACLU
help civil liberties and thumb your nose at the GOP
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:45 PM
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4. Women's Shelter
Local Library, Food Gift Cards, Sites on-line that you frequent.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:47 PM
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5. Is it a rebate on taxes
or is it one of those tax loan things they did before?
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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:49 PM
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6. Save it. The GOP would HATE that.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:49 PM
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7. First remember that it's really a loan against next years taxes
Edited on Wed Jan-23-08 09:54 PM by Lone_Star_Dem
If that's not going to be a financial problem for you then do with it as you choose.
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:54 PM
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8. Give it to me ...I know what to do with it.
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 10:02 PM
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9. Spending money on revenge seems like a waste. At least to me.
I'd rather pay a bill and get groceries and gas. Oh, and contribute to something which feels positive. :-) MKJ
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 10:23 PM
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10. Save It
They're going to ask for it back next year. So put it in a saving account -- with the highest yield you can find or in a short-term money market/CD type thing -- then you can give it back and keep the 40 or 50 bucks you earned on it.

But if you do spend it, check for the Made In America label...personally, I intend to buy socks.
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CRF450 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 10:25 PM
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11. Why thank you GW, you just helped me get one payment ahead
on my house!
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 10:26 PM
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12. I am using it for debt reduction.
If you really want to mess with them you should burn it. Not one cent is circulated through the economy!

Where you spend it will not matter much, revenge is meaningless unless those you seek revenge against know it. By all means, if you want to donate it to a worthy cause you should. It may even be tax deductible!
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Garbo 2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 12:14 AM
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13. A place that feeds & assists the poor and homeless would be my suggestion.
Reportedly donations are down at a lot of food banks, etc. while the need is increasing. Domating to such an organization may not be a solution to the problem and may not be revenge against "disaster economics," but the immediate need is there.
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KillCapitalism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 12:19 AM
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14. DUH!!!
Spend it on booze, cigs, lottery tickets, strippers, 24-inch rims, and weed like all Freepers say us libruls spend our money on!:sarcasm:

Seriously though, I'll save the majority of it & donate some to our Democratic candidate for rhe '08 election.
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