A cigar from our own box

[spindoctor]

Stimulate this!

Tax breaks. If the treasury doesn't need our money, they shouldn't take it in the first place. Judging from the hole in the budget, it needs every penny it can gets.
This crisis wasn't caused by tax payments, so cutting back on taxes isn't going to fix it.

Consumer spending isn't going to get us out of this mess, consumer spending is what got us in it. We don't need leaders telling us to bring more money (that we don't have) to corporations, we need leaders telling us to live by our means.

Our beloved president is not handing out free money. This is money that we put up to finance his silly war and other costly endeavors. He is offering us a cigar from our own box.

Riddle me this. If a tax break is supposed to stimulate the economy, then we're supposed to spend it. So who benefits from it? Us, or the corporations we spend it on? Why not give the money directly to City Group and cut out the middle man?

[Angela Shelley]

1. I agree.

Excess consumer credit has put the households in a difficult situation, as it always has and always will.

Excess expenditures (on borrowed money) for the attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq has put the government in a difficult situation, as it always has and always will.

The government is not handing out free money, the money will be borrowed from other countries, just to keep the American public from a revolution, as it always has and always will.

[SoCalDem]

2. It's not even a tax "break". It's a "payday advance" on next year's

refund..and if your refund WAS going to be $1,400.00 and they send you $1,600.00 you will OWE the IRS $200.. and they will call it "income" , on which you will pay TAXES..:)

It"s the Wimpy-Rebate.. they will gladly pay us $1600.00 today, and we can pay it back next year..

[Angela Shelley]

3. Thanks for the clarification

... making the rebate discussion even crazier.