Comments on: BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME OR $1.64?

By: Shorebreak

Shorebreak — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:51:16 +0000

Buzzy – FYI nobody is getting a rebate. We’re all getting a loan from the Federal Reserve Banks, via the IRS. You’ll be paying interest on it even if you return the check.

By: Buzzy Whitlow

Buzzy Whitlow — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:38:29 +0000

Why should people who have paid no taxes get a rebate??

By: David

David — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:15:45 +0000

Don’t forget this money that you will recieve is borrowed money. Money that you will pay back in the form of taxes.

By: StatlernWaldorf

StatlernWaldorf — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:53:38 +0000

First off, GOP Outsider…..go outside and soak your head!! You don’t have to come here and read, so I suggest you DON’T.

Abdul, the “stimulus” money will be just as you stated….giving me MY money back. It isn’t the government’s money, it’s MINE. What will I do with it? Probably give it back to another government entity in the form of another TAX. :(

By: 7th District Wonder of the World

7th District Wonder of the World — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:28:17 +0000

Right on Abdul.

By: Abdul-Hakim

Abdul-Hakim — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:23:18 +0000

Hey GOP-outside,

Why don’t you go read something else and that way neither of us will have to waste our time.

By: GOP-outsider

GOP-outsider — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:37:00 +0000

Abdul: Why don’t you stick to covering local and state politics in your blog. I have never found anything you have written about the president or congress to ever have been anthing more than a waste of time.

By: Shorebreak

Shorebreak — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:19:20 +0000

“If this is the government’s idea of stimulus…”
Everyone knows that if this was truly a stimulus it would have been done differently. An additional rebate off of this years taxes for example. Or better yet, an increase in paycheck witholding exemptions for the next 52 weeks. That way nobody’s whose not already paying gets the rebate, and every taxpayer is assured of being included in the plan.

The real goal of the “stimulus” plan is to justify an additional $150 billion dollars in loans from the Fed banks. Everyone can sit in front of their personal colliseums (aka televisions) and let the Senate throw out cash to placate them when times get tough – so that there won;t be an uprising when people collectively realize that the empire has completely drained their national treasury.

This isn’t a stimulus package. It’s a bribe so that nobody complains about the additional $150 billlion dollar debt that was just approved. We’ll be paying the interest on this loan for the next several decades.

I’m not spending a dime of mine on anything that’ll go towards a tax – at least when it leaves MY hands. I think I’ll use it to buy some goodies from private sellers on ebay – if I don’t invest it in foreign currency. The way things are going, I might double my money within the year.

By: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Fuzzy Curmudgeon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:46:22 +0000

To me, economic stimulus means “1-year moratorium on all taxation of income”.

With any luck that would put the economy on puree and the next year we’d repeal the 16th Amendment because we’d realize income taxes weren’t needed.

Yeah, livin’ in dreamland. But a guy can dream, can’t he?

By: tyler

tyler — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:11:12 +0000

i don’t know about you, but i really could use that money. i’ll probably use it to help finance a trip i’ve been wanting to take, and that i otherwise wouldn’t get to take without the money; so, yeah, i think it’s a good idea and at least in my case it will do what it’s supposed to.