how will you spend your tax rebate check?

What a windfall! Up to $600 for singles, $1200 for couples, $300/kid extra! :wow:

Will you stimulate the economy?
Or tuck it away in savings?


:wtf: Does Congress think we're that stupid?

I will jam it into debt or savings..so as to not stimulate this consumerist culture

When do pensions and SS count as "earned income"?

Assuming, of course, I actually get one (I got some nice bonuses this year; I think I am just above the threshhold for a "rebate.") That way, when I have to pay it back to the government (like the last "rebate") I might actually have something left.

The phrase bread and circuses keeps coming to mind....

to an account that gave me 12 monts no interest.no payments, but the $1,100 bill is due in May. I'll just pay that bill.

so I'll bank whatever is left over after taxes in order to repay it in 2009.

Or maybe I'll make some more Kiva loans with it. Whatever. Wally's isn't getting it, that's for damned sure.

What I mean is I'll put it in my checking account like a paycheck, and it will be spent on normal things.

Nothing special or stimulating.

1. Buy a box
2. Put it in the box
3. Open the box at tax time
record high 923.73 per once. You can buy a little over a half ounce. .65 once

Might upgrade my computer or to savings.

This will only cover a fraction of the cost. But it will help pay down the bill.

we got a cat from the SPCA two weeks ago who seems to be a veterinary money pit.

He's a very sweet cat but that money has to come from somewhere. *sigh*

He needs very expensive food too.

Good thing he's already stolen my heart. :loveya: LOL

:evilgrin:

I never got the last one. It was just a deduction from my income tax.

If I were to get one, I would spend it sensibly, paying off bills. Anything else would be silly.

PS3 probably.

I'll be spending it there. That'll piss 'em off. Heh.

Depending on what baby expenses are like at the time, we may not need it, but others might, so it still helps boost spending and makes us some more money while we're at it.

I'm outside their income limits.

get me a shotgun and kil all the whities I see. (no seriously, that was only the first thing that came to mind). I'm gonna go to my bank and buy 1200.00 worth of quarters in rolls at $10.00 each, then I'm gonna take the quarters and look for silver ones, I'll keep them and give the rest back to the bank. I figure if I do this, I might be able to double my rebate, whoooppeee, in the first month.

The Idiot wants us to go shopping, just like he told us to do after 9/11.

I feel kinda insulted that this is their idea of a partial solution. Throw money at the little people, and watch them scamper around from store to store. What I really want to see are tax increases on that wealthiest 0.1% of the population that have been robbing us (albeit, legally) for the past 7 years. Y'know, people like those CEOs who earn huge bonuses for being utter failures. I want to see that extra tax revenue invested in healthcare, education, and infrastructure. I want it to create good-paying JOBS.

We have a duty to make this country, and this world, a better place for future generations. Otherwise, as a progressive society, we would be hopeless failures.

I don't need any toys right now. He should've thought of this before Xmas!

I'll pay subjects. That, and transportation and other incident research costs.

Gotta have people to conduct my experiments "on" ("with" might be a better preposition). Language processing, and non-invasive.

The money for my kid will go into his education fund. My wife can do what she wants with her dollop o' rebate.

Lots of them.

Cause I've been holding on that step...just kidding...

Maybe I'll adopt some with the refund money, that way when the next refund comes along I get more...so the short answer is I'll invest it.

Use the crumbs they're mocking us with to bring them down.

although it's not going to make a very big dent in the 60k.