Rebate Letters to Cost $42 Million

[Kadie]

Rebate Letters to Cost $42 Million
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer

Friday, March 7, 2008

(03-07) 10:47 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --


At a cost of nearly $42 million, the IRS wants you to know: Your check is almost in the mail.

The Internal Revenue Service is spending the money on letters to alert taxpayers to expect rebate checks as part of the economic stimulus plan.

The notices are going out this month to an estimated 130 million households who filed returns for the 2006 tax year, at a cost $41.8 million, IRS spokesman John Lipold confirmed.

That works out to about 32 cents to print, process and mail each letter. It doesn't include the tab for another round of mailings planned for those who didn't file tax returns last year but may still qualify for a rebate.

Democrats accused the Bush administration of wasting time and postage.

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[mike_c]

1. so go shopping early, before you even get a rebate, folks!

Debt is GOOD!

[IndyOp]

5. I think I'm going to go spend $1200. I don't know if I'll get that much

but maybe I will, so I'll go ahead and spend, spend, spend now! Probably on DVDs - I definitely need to own every movie I've enjoyed over the past 20-30 years.

:hi:

[napi21]

2. THAT'S PLAIN STUPID! They don't seem to have any problem

getting the media to get other information to everyone! Why not just do a Press Release that would cost NOTHING????

[Bill McBlueState]

3. i wish

I wish Congressional Democrats could have been more indignant about unnecessary wars and less so about unnecessary postage.

[DS1]

4. 3 hours in Iraq, isn't it?

or something obscene like that.

[LSK]

7. something like that

But you should be outraged at small cost things like this.

[L. Coyote]

6. A drop in the bucket compared to the cost to your grandchildren!

[Benhurst]

8. Better run out there and by an HDTV.

Movies kept morale up during the last depression.

TV will be have to do it for the coming one, but only HD sets will be able to handle the signals.

I'm sure a little tot is out there at this very moment, practicing her dance steps to prance us through the coming hard times. American Idol? You ain't seen nothing yet!

[live love laugh]

9. The entire rebate is one big propoganda campaign--it is strategically

timed so that the short-lived effects will pretty much tide Bush through until the
(s)election in November.

Delaying the rebate until May and then having the media to stall out acknowledgment that we are actually in stagflation/recession/depression is a way to try to dodge the historical record that would show Bush's damage to the economy.